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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa

Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...

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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...

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Trust, Intangible Assets, and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; Mairesse, Jacques; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …

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Financial literacy and stock market participation

Rooij, Maarten van (contributor); … - 2007

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Financial literacy and retirement planning : new evidence from the Rand American Life Panel

Lusardi, Annamaria (contributor); … - 2007

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Planning and financial literacy : how do women fare?

Lusardi, Annamaria (contributor); … - 2008

"Many older US households have done little or no planning for retirement, and there is a substantial population that seems to undersave for retirement. Of particular concern is the relative position of older women, who are more vulnerable to old-age poverty due to their longer longevity. This...

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Financial literacy and retirement preparedness : evidence and implications for financial education programs

Lusardi, Annamaria (contributor); … - 2007

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Financial literacy among the young : evidence and implications for consumer policy

Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Curto, Vilsa - 2010

Youth. We showed that financial literacy is low; fewer than one-third of young adults possess basic knowledge of interest … education whose parents were not wealthy. These findings have implications for consumer policy. -- Financial Knowledge ; Peer …

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How ordinary consumers make complex economic decisions : financial literacy and retirement readiness

Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2010

by exploiting information about respondent financial knowledge acquired in school. Results show that those with more … advanced financial knowledge are those more likely to be retirement-ready. -- Financial Knowledge ; Financial Sophistication …

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Financial literacy : an essential tool for informed consumer choice?

Lusardi, Annamaria (contributor) - 2008

Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy...

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