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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Black, Sandra E. - 2007

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...

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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

This paper exploits the richness and large sample size of the Gallup/Healthways US daily poll to illustrate significant differences in the dynamics of two key measures of subjective well-being: emotions and life evaluations. We find that there is no day-of-week effect for life evaluations,...

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Investing in Bank Lending Technology : IT Spending in Banking

He, Zhiguo; Jiang, Sheila; Xu, Douglas; Yin, Xiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the economics behind the investment in information technologies (IT) by U.S. commercial banks in the past decade. By linking banks' IT spending to their lending technologies, we analyze the distinctive natures of banks' dealings with information across various lending...

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The Quality of Ideas : Measuring Innovation with Multiple Indicators

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1999

We model early expectations about the value and technological importance ('quality') of a patented innovation as a latent variable common to a set of four indicators: the number of patent claims, forward citations, backward citations and family size. The model is estimated for four technology...

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Bayesian Performance Evaluation

Baks, Klaas - 1999

This paper proposes a Bayesian method of performance evaluation for investment managers. We begin with a flexible set of prior beliefs that can be elicited without any reference to probability distributions or their parameters. We then combine these prior beliefs with a general multi-factor...

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Competition and Selection in Credit Markets

Yannelis, Constantine; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present both theory and evidence that increased competition may decrease rather than increase consumer welfare in subprime credit markets. We present a model of lending markets with imperfect competition, adverse selection and costly lender screening. In more competitive markets, lenders have...

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On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the economic foundations of some recently proposed criteria for evaluating the benefits of social programs. These criteria are appropriate for comparing a class of revenue-constant policies. They replace foundational principles of social opportunity costs with accounting...

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Effects of Photo ID Laws on Registration and Turnout : Evidence from Rhode Island

Esposito, Francesco Maria - 2019

We study the effect of photo ID laws on voting using a difference-in-differences estimation approach around Rhode Island's implementation of a photo ID law. We employ anonymized administrative data to measure the law's impact by comparing voting behavior among those with drivers' licenses versus...

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Mortality Risk, Insurance, and the Value of Life

Bauer, Daniel - 2018

We develop a new framework for valuing health and longevity improvements that departs from conventional but unrealistic assumptions of full annuitization and deterministic health. Our framework can value the prevention of mortality and of illness, and it can quantify the effects of retirement...

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Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces : Facts, Theory and Evidence

Fang, Hanming - 2018

number of geographic ``rating areas." The ACA mandates that an insurer price its health insurance plan uniformly in all … counties within the same rating area, conditional on insurees' age and smoking status. However, the ACA does \textit …{not} require that an insurer sell its plan in all counties in a rating area. Using the federal marketplace data, we quantify the …

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