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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes

Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020

emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …

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Subjective well-being and public policy

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Econometric explorations on bounded rationality : the case of job changing behavior

Contini, Bruno (contributor); Morini, Matteo (contributor) - 2007

"In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behavior, via simple econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). A rational outcome of the job matching process implies a positive tradeoff between future...

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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models

Chudik, Alexander (contributor); … - 2007

This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the 'curse of dimensionality' in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends to infinity. It is...

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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012

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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …

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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...

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