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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility
Mion, Giordano - 2017
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932916
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Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Reform
Fiva, Jon H. - 2011
outcomes to address this issue. Our application is based on a nationwide municipal electoral reform in Norway, which changed … the seat allocation method from d'Hondt to modified Sainte-Lagüe. Even though this electoral reform is of a relatively …
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Danzer, Natalia - 2017
capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …
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The Importance of the Electoral Rule : Evidence from Italy
Bordignon, Massimo - 2011
We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy … objectives of the reform) that remained unchanged at their pre-reform level …
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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...
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Channel Systems : Why is There a Positive Spread?
Berentsen, Aleksander - 2010
An increasing number of central banks implement monetary policy via two standing facilities: a lending facility and a deposit facility. In this paper we show that it is socially optimal to implement a non-zero interest rate spread. We prove this result in a dynamic general equilibrium model...
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The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment : Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2011
At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known locally as 'midday meals' – in government primary schools. This paper provides a large-scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117261
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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
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The Changing Macroeconomic Response to Stock Market Volatility Shocks
Beetsma, Roel M. W. J. - 2011
There is substantial consensus in the literature that positive uncertainty shocks predict a slowdown of economic activity. However, using U.S. data since 1950 we show that the macroeconomic response pattern to stock market volatility shocks has changed substantially over time. The negative...
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