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Do business visits cause productivity growth?
Tani, Massimiliano; Joyeux, Roselyne - 2013
The production and diffusion of knowledge have increasingly been seen as potential causes of the observed international differences in total factor productivity and, in turn, as possible sources of economic growth. This paper presents the results of a causality study between business visits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228788
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Interpreting prediction market prices as probabilities
Wolfers, Justin (contributor); Zitzewitz, Eric (contributor) - 2006
While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing theory supporting this practice. We provide relevant analytic foundations, describing sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310964
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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257595
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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476582
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The cycle of violence? : An empirical analysis of fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Jaeger, David A. (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or "Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189630
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Nature of the relationship between minimum wage and the shadow economy size : an empirical analysis for the case of Romania
Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
The recent increase in the minimum wage in Romania in early May 2016 represented a popular topic at the national level, which indicated that aggressive increases in the minimum wage could create a competitiveness problem in the context of a relatively high level of informal economic activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785659
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Talking therapy : impacts of a nationwide mental health service in England
Oparina, Ekaterina; Krekel, Christian; Srisuma, Sorawoot - 2024
Common mental health problems impose significant costs on individuals and societies, yet healthcare systems often overlook them. We provide the first causal evidence on the effectiveness of a pioneering, nationwide mental health service for treating depression and anxiety disorders in England...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495562
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The variability and volatility of sleep: an archetypal approach
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022
individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805079
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From riches to rags, and back? : institutional change, financial development and economic growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Campos, Nauro; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2014
Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing … individual effects on economic growth and volatility using the power-ARCH framework with annual data since the 1890s. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440609
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Partisan impacts on the economy : evidence from prediction markets and close elections
Snowberg, Erik (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor);  … - 2006
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289884