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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking

DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between membership in social fraternities and sororities and binge drinking among 18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. To deal with unobserved heterogeneity in binge...

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Big Business Stability and Economic Growth : Is What's Good for General Motors Good for America?

Fogel, Kathy - 2006

What is good for big business need not generally advance a country's overall economy. Big business turnover correlates with rising income, productivity, and (in high income countries) faster capital accumulation; consistent with Schumpeter's (1912) creative destruction and recent formalizations...

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Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Glaeser, Edward - 2006

mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of …

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CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation

Jenter, Dirk - 2006

This paper examines whether CEOs are fired after bad firm performance caused by factors beyond their control. Standard economic theory predicts that corporate boards filter out exogenous industry and market shocks to firm performance when deciding on CEO retention. Using a new hand-collected...

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Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health : An Analysis using Siblings and Twins

Oreopoulos, Phil - 2006

We use administrative data on a sample of births between 1978 and 1985 to investigate the short, medium and long-term consequences of poor infant health. Our findings offer several advances to the existing literature on the effects of early infant health on subsequent health, education, and...

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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...

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How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2006

In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of utility, and use them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. We find that life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World...

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Common Failings : How Corporate Defaults are Correlated

Das, Sanjiv - 2006

under which firms'default times are correlated only as implied by the correlation of factors determining their default …

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Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness

Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2006

We use administrative data on North Carolina public schools to document the tendency for more highly qualified teachers to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts of various teacher qualifications on student...

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The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior : Evidence from Weather Shocks

Jacob, Brian - 2004

The persistence of criminal activity is well documented. While such serial correlation may be evidence of social … between crime rates in a particular area due to displacement. In this paper, we exploit the correlation between weather and … lagged crime rates due to unexpected weather shocks, we find that the strong positive serial correlation documented in OLS is …

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