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The economic approach to personality, character and virtue
Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023
This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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Aggregate shocks or aggregate information? : Costly information and business cycle comovement
Veldkamp, Laura (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
has examined complementarities in production, we propose that sectors make similar input decisions because of … complementarities in information acquisition. Because information about driving forces has a high fixed cost of production and a low … correlated production choices. This mechanism amplifies the effects of common shocks, relative to sectoral shocks. …
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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : an analysis by gender
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S. - 2019
attainment and time in household production by both women and men. Both the market and nonmarket sectors will be covered as well …
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The causal effects of enclosures on production and productivity
Lazuka, Volha; Bengtsson, Tommy; Svensson, Patrick - 2023
enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non-experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure … productivity in the first decade and overall production increase reached 82 percent after 30 years. Such results are much larger …
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Gender differences in strategic behaviour under competitive pressure : evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and business use to choose their students. These exams are multiple choice tests where wrong answers are...
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Do men matter to female competition even when they don't?
Birk, Erica G.; Lee, Logan M.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2016
men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
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Game, set, and match : do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
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