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

Avery, Christopher - 2010

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

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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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Khan, B. Zorina - 2017

Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as asymmetrical information, while others regard familial connections as conduits for inefficiency, with...

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Must Love Kill the Family Firm?

Mehrotra, Vikas C. - 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 C. - 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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The Great Pyramids of America : A Revised History of Us Business Groups, Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950

Kandel, Eugene - 2013

Most listed firms are freestanding in the U.S, while listed firms in other countries often belong to business groups: lasting structures in which listed firms control other listed firms. Hand-collected historical data illuminate how the present ownership structure of the United States arose: (1)...

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Microcredit Impacts : Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Angelucci, Manuela - 2014

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of eligible borrowers and their businesses, to estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at...

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