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education and business. After initial choices, those respondents with high levels of religiosity are more likely to enter … college. Of those who are in college, people with high levels of religiosity tend to go into the humanities and education over …
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) the topics of the increased publications are more likely to deviate from the deans' research area prior to becoming deans …
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We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been … university fixed effect and find that its decline is due to the reduced importance of physical access to productive research …
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To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students...
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-departmental heterogeneity in productivity. Throughout, the discussion summarizes earlier work. I survey research on the impacts of citations on … salaries and non-monetary rewards and discuss how citations reflect judgments about research quality in economics …
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New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills, it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement would be short-lived. In this paper, I use a...
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This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression discontinuity design based on admissions rules at elite...
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We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower … mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …
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Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
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enforces them, and suggest relevant policy work and areas for future research …
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