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European economic growth has been weak, compared to the US, since the 80s. In previous work (Krueger and Kumar, 2003), we argued that the European focus on specialized, vocational education might have been effective during the 60s and 70s, but resulted in a growth gap relative to the US during...
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We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
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We examine misconduct in credence good markets with price taking experts. We propose a market-level model in which … price-taking experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm's brand and their own skill. We test the predictions … independent experts, despite doing substantially less business. In addition, more experienced experts attract more complaints per …
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Expert performance is often evaluated in a one dimensional way by assuming that good experts have good outcomes. We … suggest that focusing on the choices of experts as well as the outcomes achieved could contribute to evaluating expert …
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Most interpretations of prevalent counterinsurgency theory imply that increasing government services will reduce rebel violence. Empirically, however, development programs and economic activity sometimes yield increased violence. Using new panel data on development spending in Iraq, we show that...
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Consider an environment where long-lived experts repeatedly interact with short-lived customers. In periods when an … appropriate. We find that there exists an equilibrium in which experts always play truthfully and choose the customer's preferred … with high probability if the previous treatment was minor, and low probability if it was major. If experts have private …
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We show that personal experiences of inflation strongly influence the hawkish or dovish leanings of central bankers. For all members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) since 1951, we estimate an adaptive learning rule based on their lifetime inflation data. The resulting...
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We explore how examiner behavior is altered by the time allocated for reviewing patent applications. Insufficient examination time may hamper examiner search and rejection efforts, leaving examiners more inclined to grant invalid applications. To test this prediction, we use application-level...
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behavioral experts regarding the effectiveness of the treatments, allowing us to compare results to expectations. We find that (i … compare the results to forecasts by 208 experts. On average, the experts anticipate several key features, like the … effectiveness of psychological motivators. A sizeable share of experts, however, expects crowd-out, probability weighting, and pure …
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Physicians, acting in their role as experts, are often faced with situations where they must trade off personal and …
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