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This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
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This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
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This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513134
of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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time and employment duration (Imbens (1994)), and estimate the model using personnel data from a large Dutch aircraft …
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Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
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fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This paper investigates individual time …-to-degree in a model where students determine the optimum time-to-degree whilst weighing up the cost against the consumption … levels, and economic growth have a significant impact on individual time-to-degree. These results are consistent with the …
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If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health of the children) cannot be considered to be randomly determined. While most existing studies of child health tend to overlook the effects of fertility selection on child health,...
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Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will …
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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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