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Emotion research in economics
Wälde, Klaus - 2016
or they study emotions out of interest for the emotion itself. While some analyses display a strong overlap between … approaches to emotion research. Ways how to reduce this gap are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499845
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A meta-analysis of the literature on climate change and migration
Beine, Michel; Jeusette, Lionel - 2018
Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951977
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Quest for the general effect size of finance on growth : a large meta-analysis of worldwide studies
Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen - 2023
We analyze diverse and heterogenous literature to grasp the general effect size of financial development on economic growth on a world scale. For that, we perform by far the largest available meta-analysis of the finance-growth nexus using 3561 estimates collected from 177 studies. Our...
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The performance of socially responsible investments : a meta-analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Yüksel, Gülistan - 2022
In this article, we use a meta-analysis to examine the performance of socially responsible investing (SRI). After a thorough literature search, we review 153 empirical studies containing 1,047 observations of SRI performance. We find that, on average, SRI neither outperforms nor underperforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186761
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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established …. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of …' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281431
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Pleasures of skill and moral conduct
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2016
This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420699
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966504
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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732340
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Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2011
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230850
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Happiness of economists
Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...
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