increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …

the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …

understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …