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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...

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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...

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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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The Effect of Multitasking on Educational Outcomes and Academic Dishonesty

Lavy, Victor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

School authorities, universities, and employers often schedule multiple tests on the same day or week, causing overlapping exam preparation and a dense testing schedule. This multitask learning can be intense, under pressure, and challenge the student's mental and physical perseverance. As a...

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students

Yu, Han - 2018

This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 … new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …

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Building Resilient Education Systems : Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries

Angrist, Noam; Ainomugisha, Micheal; Bathena, Sai Pramod; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

settings across five countries: India, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Uganda. We test multiple scalable models of remote …

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"When Anything Can Happen" : Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making

DeLuca, Stefanie; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Boselovic, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short, flexible programs that tend to have low returns in the labor market. Prior literature emphasizes information deficits and financial constraints. We draw upon qualitative data...

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