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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James Joseph; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not
Wolter, Stefan C.; Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - 2003
The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth...
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Research and Policy Issues in High-Skilled International Migration: A Perspective with Data from the United States
Regets, Mark C. - 2001
Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262573
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Modelling the time on unemployment insurance benefits
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2007
A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of a model based on the time till re-employment is more relevant from a cost-benefit perspective. The contribution of this paper is to extend the standard (mixed) Proportional Hazard model to account for an upper...
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Rational choice and voter turnout: Evidence from union representation elections
Farber, Henry S. - 2010
The standard theoretical solution to the observation of substantial turnout in large elections is that individuals receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin on which individuals consider the effect of their vote...
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Decision-making by children
Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer; Tsang, Kwok P. - 2007
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …
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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior
Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012
emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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