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Peer networks and entrepreneurship : a Pan-African RCT

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2019

Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …

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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy : what can we learn from molecular genetics?

Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009

This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction effects. This literature...

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Are attitudes towards economic risk heritable? : analyses using the Australian twin study of gambling

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010

This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini, Dawes, Johannesson,...

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Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414017

Investigating the genetic architecture of non-cognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction

Demange, Perline A.; Malanchini, Margherita; Mallard, … - 2020

Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...

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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...

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Frictional unemployment with stochastic bubbles

Vuillemey, Guillaume; Wasmer, Etienne - 2016

Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic … bubbles in the standard search-and matching model of the labor market. The economy alternates between latent and bubbly states …, each being associated with a distinct solution for the market value of firms (respectively, stable or explosive). Bubbles …

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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market

Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017

asset market bubbles occur in all sessions, but global markets had significantly more extreme and longer duration valuation … bubbles. Additionally, subjects at the most suboptimal times-of-day held significantly more asset shares in their portfolios …

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Two heads are less bubbly than one : team decision-making in an experimental asset market

Cheung, Stephen L.; Palan, Stefan - 2009

We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced …-dominated environments. -- Asset market experiments ; price bubbles ; group decision-making ; gender composition of teams …

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