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Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Rosenboim, Mosi; … - 2017
in order to assess how men and women respond to competitive pressure. Comparing their performance in low-stakes versus … results are mixed. Furthermore, even if women show a drop in performance in the more crucial stages of the match, it is in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653315
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Psychological Momentum and Gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479363
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Take a Chance on ABBA
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017
The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744590
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Where to put the kids? Effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278481
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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015
this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500313
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The effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Simonsen, Marianne - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287616
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Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216763
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The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775590
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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163468