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Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...
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This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...
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early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …
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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …
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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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may be limited in fast-changing economies. Conversely, general education should provide learning skills, but these may …
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This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
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How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … who have a deep understanding of the core business of their organization. Being a capable general manager is not … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability …
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experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …
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