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Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2020

We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...

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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...

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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022

each other, set off a race between their autochthonous state-building projects, which determines their extent and … developed into independent states, as agriculture provided the fertile ground for state-formation, while isolation provided time … reproducing a mega-state in the area that became China and on the determinants of its borders with other states. …

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On the power of childhood impressions for skill formation: Initial evidence and unsettled questions

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013

Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - 2017

Two common hypotheses regarding the relative benefits of vocational versus general education are (1) that vocational skills enhance relative short-term earnings and (2) that general skills enhance relative long-term earnings. Empirical evidence for these hypotheses has remained limited. Based on...

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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...

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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany

Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - 2005

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...

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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...

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On the identification of Frisch labor supplies

Donni, Olivier - 2006

This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by Heckman and MaCurdy.

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