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Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Etile, Fabrice - 2020
important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience … adaptation. We find considerable heterogeneity in the response to adverse events, and that resilience is strongly correlated with … clinical measures of mental health. Resilience in adulthood is predictable by childhood socioeconomic circumstances; the …
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Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?
Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317063
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit - 2009
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
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Not so Lucky Any More : CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms
Kang, Qiang; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2021
There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to "managerial power" or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paper we offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324758
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Leader Identity and Coordination
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910757
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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
communities' resilience. Both, participation to economic activities and to household chores have been taken into account. We find … communities' resilience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045042
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The First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew - 2021
We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July...
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Hearing Loss and Disability Exit : Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies
Christensen, Vibeke T.; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; … - 2021
Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316673
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe - 2017
Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great Recession out-performed their centralized counterparts in sectors that were …
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Crises, What Crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2021
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
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