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Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
Huckman, Robert S.; Clark, Jonathan R.; Staats, Bradley R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing. Though the consolidation of...
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What Do We Know About Short and Long Term Effects of Early Life Exposure to Pollution?
Currie, Janet; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Mullins, Jamie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health and an increasing body of evidence suggests that early childhood health influences health and human capital outcomes later in life. This paper reviews the economic research that brings these two literatures together. We begin...
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Emigration of Skilled Labor under Risk Aversion: The Case of Medical Doctors from Middle Eastern and North African Economies
Driouchi, Ahmed; Kadiri, Molk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This is a contribution to the new economics of skilled labor emigration that focuses on the mobility of medical doctors from sending Middle East and North African countries. Economic models under risk neutrality and aversion are used. The findings show that the relative expected benefits and the...
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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829458
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults
Tekin, Erdal; Markowitz, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
effects of suicide thoughts and attempts on the probability of engaging in work or school. The richness of the data set allows …. The longitudinal nature of the data set also allows us to control for past suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts of the … identification strategies consistently indicate that both suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the likelihood a young adult …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089214
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Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their lifetimes. Most of the existing research has concluded that exposure to violence leads to restricted emotional development, aggressive behavior and poor school outcomes. However, this literature fails to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050087
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Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood
Cawley, John; Spiess, C. Katharina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate models of developmental functioning in four critical areas (verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580246
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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth - Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent dynamic models which take income growth and population aging as given. We view these variables as...
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Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes: The Shared Burden and Benefit of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Parman, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
There is a growing body of evidence showing that negative childhood health shocks have long term consequences in terms of health, human capital formation and labor market outcomes. However, by altering the relative prices of child quality across siblings, these health shocks can also affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821839