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Measuring the Spatial Distribution of Health Rankings in the United States

Davis, Will; Gordan, Alexander; Tchernis, Rusty - 2021

We rank counties in the United States of America with respect to population health. We utilize the five observable county health variables used to construct the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s County Health Rankings (CHRs). Our method relies on a factor analysis model to...

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

Avery, Christopher; Glickman, Mark E.; Hoxby, Caroline M.; … - 2006

We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct … extends models used for ranking players in tournaments, such as chess or tennis. When a student makes his matriculation … the information contained in thousands of these wins and losses. Our method produces a ranking that would be difficult for …

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

Avery, Christopher - 2010

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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows

Bombardini, Matilde - 2009

Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...

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Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals

Reuben, Ernesto - 2015

Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive...

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Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2010

We study how firms differ from their competitors using new time-varying measures of product differentiation based on text-based analysis of product descriptions from 50,673 firm 10-K statements filed yearly with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This year-by-year set of product...

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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms

Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011

The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...

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Must Love Kill the Family Firm?

Mehrotra, Vikas - 2010

Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. This is the essence of the critique of family firms in...

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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives

Bandiera, Oriana - 2012

We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...

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Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box : Complements or Substitutes?

Haltiwanger, John - 2014

In part due to the popular perception that Big-Boxes displace smaller, often family owned (a.k.a. Mom-and-Pop) retail establishments, several empirical studies have examined the evidence on how Big-Boxes' impact local retail employment but no clear consensus has emerged. To help shed light on...

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