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The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct

Egan, Mark - 2016

We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing approximately 10% of employment of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide extent of misconduct among...

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Fraudulent Income Overstatement on Mortgage Applications during the Credit Expansion of 2002 to 2005

Mian, Atif R. - 2015

Academic research, government inquiries, and press accounts show extensive mortgage fraud during the housing boom of … the mid-2000s. We explore a particular type of mortgage fraud: the overstatement of income on mortgage applications. We … with high income overstatement are plagued with mortgage fraud according to independent measures. Income overstatement in a …

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Accounting for Price Endogeneity in Airline Itinerary Choice Models : An Application to Continental U.S. Markets

Lurkin, Virginie - 2016

Network planning models, which forecast the profitability of airline schedules, support many critical decisions, including equipment purchase decisions. Network planning models include an itinerary choice model that is used to allocate air total demand in a city pair to different itineraries....

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Heat and Learning

Goodman, Joshua - 2018

We provide the first evidence that cumulative heat exposure inhibits cognitive skill development and that school air conditioning can mitigate this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-takers show that hotter school days in the year prior to the test reduce learning, with...

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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms

Sauermann, Henry - 2017

We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D...

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Thrivers and Divers : Using Non-Academic Measures to Predict College Success and Failure

Beattie, Graham - 2016

We collect a comprehensive set of non-academic characteristics for a representative sample of incoming freshman to explore which measures best predict the wide variance in first-year college performance unaccounted for by past grades. We focus our attention on student outliers. Students whose...

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All or Nothing? The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Effort and Academic Achievement

Lee, Soohyung - 2014

We estimate the causal impact of school and classroom gender composition on achievement. We take advantage of the random assignment of Korean middle school students to single-sex schools, co-educational (coed) schools with single-sex classes, and coed schools with mixed-gender classes. Male...

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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Peer Advice on Financial Decisions : A case of the blind leading the blind?

Ambuehl, Sandro - 2018

experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions …

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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News : Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Simonov, Andrey - 2020

We test for and measure the effects of cable news in the US on regional differences in compliance with recommendations by health experts to practice social distancing during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal effect of Fox News...

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