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demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …
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We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
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arm’s length. The model further implies that firms are more likely to offshore when frictions in the provision of services …
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by … services. Assimilated immigrants take on skilled jobs. At the political level natives choose the number of immigrants that can … be allowed, given some fixed price for services. We show that, at the assumed price, it is never optimal for natives to …
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The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non …
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The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …
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