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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach

Lazear, Edward P. - 2014

A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...

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Keeping it in the Family : Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moscona, Jacob - 2017

. Within Africa, individuals belonging to ethnic groups that organized society using segmentary lineages exhibit a more limited …

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Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto; Hohmann, Sebastian; Michalopulos, Stelios - 2022

Africa, home to some of the world’s largest Christian and Muslim communities. First, we use census data from 20 countries to … construct new upward and downward religion-specific intergenerational mobility (IM) statistics. Christian boys and girls have … countries where they are small minorities. Second, we trace the roots of these disparities. Although family structures differ …

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Diagnosing Discrimination : Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Wolfers, Justin - 2021

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a %u201Cglass ceiling%u201D, whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about...

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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War

Costa, Dora L. - 2011

The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...

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Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management

Bolton, Patrick - 2010

What makes a good leader? A good leader is able to coordinate his followers around a credible mission statement, which communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the organization over time. While learning helps...

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Populism and the Return of the “Paranoid Style” : Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal

Di Tella, Rafael - 2016

We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice model yields a...

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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children

Macours, Karen - 2016

Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...

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Integrating Ethical Values and Economic Value to Steer Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Korinek, Anton - 2019

Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints – the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the moral evaluation of actions in our society. The rise...

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live : Predicted Trajectories of Health, Wealth and Living Arrangements Among the Oldest Old

Heiss, Florian; Hurd, Michael D.; Börsch-Supan, Axel - 2022

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely related. This paper investigates the joint evolution of...

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