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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Avdic, Daniel - 2018

Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...

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Minimum Global Tax : Winners and Losers in the Race for Mergers and Acquisitions

Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2023

This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...

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High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David - 2019

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Kautz, Tim - 2014

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations

Jerrim, John - 2020

There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...

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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2021

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...

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Is There a Preferential Treatment for Locals in the Labor Market? Evidence from Takeovers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2016

of local employees retained after the takeover is negatively associated with the probability of closure of the acquiring …

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Charters Without Lotteries : Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2015

attendance: the grandfathering instrument compares students at schools designated for takeover with students who appear similar … exclusion restriction in such comparisons. Estimates for a large sample of takeover schools in the New Orleans Recovery School … District show substantial gains from takeover enrollment. In Boston, where we can compare grandfathering and lottery estimates …

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CEO Stress, Aging, and Death

Borgschulte, Mark; Guenzel, Marius; Liu, Canyao; … - 2023

two-year increase when anti-takeover laws insulate CEOs from market discipline. The estimated health costs are significant …

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A Theory of Expert Leadership

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...

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