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Selfish Corporations
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Gormsen, Niels; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Motivated by the public debate regarding corporate responsibility, we construct a memory-based model of decision-making to illustrate how corporate and political communication can impact policy preferences. We test the predictions of our model in a new large-scale survey of U.S. citizens on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435138
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods
Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...
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What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?
Cole, Shawn; Jeng, Leslie A.; Lerner, Joshua; Rigol, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In recent years, impact investors - private investors who seek to generate simultaneously financial and social returns - have attracted intense interest and controversy. We analyze a novel, comprehensive data set of impact and traditional investors to assess how the non-financial characteristics...
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An Economic View of Corporate Social Impact
Allcott, Hunt; Montanari, Giovanni; Ozaltun, Bora; Tan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies' social impact. We conceptualize corporate social impact as the welfare loss that would be caused by a firm's exit. To illustrate, we quantify the social impacts of 74 firms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421228
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The Politicization of Social Responsibility
Gormley, Todd A.; Jha, Manish; Wang, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Institutional investors are less likely to support shareholder proposals involving environmental and social issues for firms headquartered in Republican-led states. The lower support concentrates in recent years, when politicians became more vocal about firms' social responsibility activities,...
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Women's Colleges and Economics Major Choice : Evidence from Wellesley College Applicants
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250162
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Can Information and Advising Affect Postsecondary Participation and Attainment for Non-Traditional Students? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment with the U.S. Army
Barr, Andrew C.; Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
non-traditional students. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462713
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No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post-graduate education and career choices as well as...
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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success
Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …
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