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Growing Up in a Recession : Beliefs and the Macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola - 2009
Does the historical macroeconomic environment affect preferences for redistribution? We find that individuals who experienced a recession when young believe that success in life depends more on luck than effort, support more government redistribution, and tend to vote for left-wing parties. The...
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The Impact of Poor Health on Education : New Evidence Using Genetic Markers
Ding, Weili - 2006
This paper examines the influence of health conditions on academic performance during adolescence. To account for the endogeneity of health outcomes and their interactions with risky behaviors we exploit natural variation within a set of genetic markers across individuals. We present strong...
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Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous variation in emigration from Italian local labor markets to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm creation. The decline...
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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program …
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Intangible Marketing Capital
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments … include the creation and maintenance of a brand name and all its corresponding brand elements (e.g., awareness, reputation … outlays. Finally, we explore the welfare implications of investments in brand capital …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy
Anderson, Soren T. - 2013
We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …, or it could result from correlation in family characteristics that determine brand choice. We present a variety of …
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Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Paloviita, Maritta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...
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Measuring Self-Control
Ameriks, John - 2004
How significant are individual differences in self-control? Do these differences impact wealth accumulation? From where do they derive? Our survey-based measure of self-control provides insights into all three questions: 1.There are individual differences in self-control not only of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468179
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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control
Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people's awareness of their limited self-control. We find that people overestimate past gym attendance, and that larger overestimation of past attendance is associated with (i) more...
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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century After the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2010
. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …
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