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Fostering and measuring skills : improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success

Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - 2014

-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and … provide a secure base for exploration and learning for the child. Successful interventions emulate the mentoring environments …

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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013

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Climate change and diet

Bose, Neha; Hills, Thomas; Sgroi, Daniel - 2020

interventions. Our findings indicate that the most influential interventions are based on scientific knowledge and efficacy salience …

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Informational shocks and street-food safety: a field study in urban India

Daniele, Gianmarco; Mookerjee, Sulagna; Tommasi, Denni - 2020

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...

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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective

Stutzer, Alois - 2019

This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

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Economic activity and the spread of viral diseases : evidence from high frequency data

Adda, Jérôme - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Quarterly Journal of Economics

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...

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The endogenous determination of minimum wage

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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Equalization of opportunity : definitions, implementable conditions and application to early-childhood policy evaluation

Andreoli, Francesco; Havnes, Tarjei; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2014

This paper develops a criterion to assess equalization of opportunity that is consistent with theoretical views of equality of opportunity. We characterize inequality of opportunity as a situation where some groups in society enjoy an illegitimate advantage. In this context, equalization of...

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Public policy and the labor market adjustment of new immigrants to Australia

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support policy in facilitating the labor market adjustment of new arrivals. Although these two cohorts entered Australia only...

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