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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016
and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565659
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383456
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Do Twitter's science stars get a citation premium?
Lessmann, Christian; Önder, Ali Sina - 2023
We analyze whether the social media popularity of Twitter star scientists, who were identified by Science in a 2014 report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global pandemic as a quasi-natural experiment exogenously...
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Emotion research in economics
Wälde, Klaus - 2016
Emotions were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While neoclassical utility theory basically abolished emotions, behavioural economics more recently reintroduced emotions in utility theory. Beyond utility theory, economic theorists use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499845
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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children
Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amelie; Rouche, … - 2019
While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022206
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Stress and coping : an economic approach
Wälde, Klaus - 2018
We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces … not go hand in hand with rising stress. First steps towards a theory of therapy show how stressed individuals can improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819320
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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
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The East German wage structure after transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2008
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806001
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...
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Money matters : evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
impact on participation in training modules. Nevertheless, the increase was partially offset by a deadweight loss in excess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808133