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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127755
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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2011
We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129122
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Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130976
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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
Conley, Dalton - 2011
service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131668
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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
Anand, Rahul - 2011
In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a two-sector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133080
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Life at the Top : The Benefits of Height
Deaton, Angus - 2011
explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134585
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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135061
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The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares
Parker, Jonathan A. - 2010
We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in … their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of … those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution have averaged 14 times average income and been 2.4 times more cyclical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135402
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Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults : Estimation of a Recursive Model
Karakus, Mustafa C. - 2010
The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs. However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137733
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How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
Chetty, Raj - 2010
In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This paper evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR by linking the experimental data to administrative records. We first demonstrate that...
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