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Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...
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Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...
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We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...
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Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...
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sales, value added, employment, productivity, and exports. These effects tend to be of at least 5% and, in some cases, 10 …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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aware of the productivity gains arising from the digital revolution. To investigate the characteristics of such gains, we … affecting workers productivity such as i) mobility reduction, ii) frequency of interactions, iii) optimal time/place, iv) work …. We as well assess the potential productivity growth of companies that use only faceto- face interactions when allowing …
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The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of … remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the link between personality traits and … workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a survey providing measures of the "Big Five" personality traits for …
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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