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We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. …
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In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
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This study develops and validates the 'Individual Inclusiveness Inventory'. Collaboration and inclusion are key … diversity of thought and background but still encourages the group in a way as to maximise performance and productivity. To …
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choosing whom to hire, they receive information about the past scores of pairs, not of individuals. We vary the observability … of individuals' abilities by ordering pair members either according to performance, or alphabetically by nickname. We …
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We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … natural sciences and narrower fields such as economics and biology. Two measures of institutional collaboration are examined … collaboration patterns across universities and then use regression analysis to examine the impact of IT exposure on multi …
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