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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an...
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Educational diversity and knowledge transfers via inter-firm labor mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
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The third mission in the academic profession : empirical insights into academic identities
Püttmann, Vitus; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen : evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860
Pritchett, Jonathan B. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. -- Slavery ; hospital ; Oaxaca-type decomposition ; New Orleans ; Touro …
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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion : a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector
Neumann, Einat (contributor); Neuman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
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Public employment and political pressure : the case of French hospitals
Clark, Andrew E.; Milcent, Carine - 2010
This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …, but without political influence on their hiring. Public-hospital employment is positively correlated with the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975431
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An analysis of hospital efficiency and productivity growth using the Luenberger productivity indicator
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, Antonio; Vieira, José … - 2007
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The primary advantage of our approach is that both input...
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