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Incorporating conditional morality into economic decisions

Masclet, David; Dickinson, David L. - 2019

We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...

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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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Do more educated leaders raise citizens' education?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013

This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...

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Leadership skills and wages

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Ethnic goods and immigrant assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions : an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program

Oosterbeek, Hessel (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...

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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017

A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...

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Can gifted and talented education raise the academic achievement of all high-achieving students?

Booij, Adam S.; Haan, Ferry; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2017

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted and talented (GT) program with selective program admission based on past achievement. We construct three complementary estimates of the program's impact on student achievement....

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