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points. In terms of proportional losses, a loss of 50% or more of the remaining cash endowment increases diversification … endowment, previous diversification strategy, relative difficulty of questions, the ability level of participants, and other …
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Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...
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Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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higher self-rated knowledge of personal finances, and are more likely to understand the value of diversification. While …
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This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
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on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …'s academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage … points. Notably, this effect is driven by the average group creativity, there is no special impact of creative superstars …
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