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Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again

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I offer a way out of the Taubman-Goldberger controversy on the public policy (ir)relevance of heritability studies by arguing for a quasi-experimentally controlled comparison of the estimates that these studies provide. If the environments individuals are exposed to are under such control,...

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On the measurement of success and satisfaction

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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure

Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017

€™ past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both … of failure into luck and skill. Our results indicate that investors discount entrepreneurs who have experienced failure … entrepreneurial failure is prevalent, we find that investors are sensitive to its core drivers: luck and skill. …

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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