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Leadership at school: Does the gender of siblings matter?
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012
Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in...
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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on … ability, schooling, occupation, and other factors. Overall, the findings suggest that personality measures are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282340
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Ageing and literacy skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2012
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a wide range of literacy outcomes - using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a weak negative partial relationship...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college towns and investigates differences in employment...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291327
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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282137
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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large field study conducted over two years with about 1,400 individuals …, time preferences are elicited using incentivized choice experiments. The aggregate distributions of discount factors and … individuals change their intertemporal choices potentially indicating unstable preferences. By linking time preference measures to …
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Family violence and football: The effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior
Card, David Edward; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a rationally expected reference point. Our empirical...
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Racial differences in inequality aversion: Evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game
Griffin, John; Nickerson, David; Wozniak, Abigail - 2011
groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for …
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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