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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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Social security and retirement decision : a positive and normative approach
Cremer, Helmuth (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328168
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The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2015
for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387557
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2004
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540578
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What's worth knowing? : economists' opinions about economics
Andre, Peter; Falk, Armin - 2021
We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588647
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Herding, warfare, and a culture of honor: global evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2021
According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624705
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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018
Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959917
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Instrumental variables in models with multiple outcomes : the general unordered case
Heckman, James J. (contributor); Urzua, Sergio (contributor) - 2008
This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to interventions are permitted to be heterogeneous in a general way and agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729412
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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments
Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage elimination tournaments. The main treatment of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777950
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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2009
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808595