math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to …

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

-oriented businesses. The VIX index (Chicago Board Options Exchange market volatility index) was once employed as a barometer of the …

due to unequal allocation of the particular resource represented by maternal quality time. OLS regressions show that the … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the … quality time received …

cannot exist a generally acceptable "optimal" age to sample earnings for IV estimation. The practical example developed in …

Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could …

Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test … administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of … Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as …

of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …

of a foreign subsidiary located just across the time zone line that increases the overlap in working hours with its …. The findings suggest that lower barriers to real-time communication within the multinational corporation play an important …