In the paper we propose a new channel through which education may promote economic growth: education makes people more patient, and more patient people are more likely to save, invest, or send children to school. The paper first summarizes the results of field studies which we conducted in two...

The paper examines the risk behavior of a competitive firm under price uncertainty. The model developed in the paper departs from Greenwald and Stiglitz (1993a), which singly implies risk-averse behavior. The incorporation of more general assumptions about a firm’s financing – access to the...