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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert - 2014

relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …

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The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

A survey of art history textbooks identifies and ranks the eight most important works of the 20th century. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of 26, which began the development of Cubism. Among the other seven works, a...

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Understanding Creativity

Galenson, David W. - 2010

. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of … has several central components. A key element is the systematic measurement of an artist's creativity over the course of … economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual domains. It is important to recognize that …

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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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The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance : The Role of Fatigue for Paramedics

Brachet, Tanguy - 2010

The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...

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Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets

Pallais, Amanda - 2013

Hiring inexperienced workers generates information about their abilities. If this information is public, workers obtain its benefits. If workers cannot compensate firms for hiring them, firms will hire too few inexperienced workers. I determine the effects of hiring workers and revealing more...

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Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility

Pan, Yihui - 2013

When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...

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Working Over Time : Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks

Augenblick, Ned - 2013

Experimental tests of dynamically inconsistent time preferences have largely relied on choices over time-dated monetary rewards. Several recent studies have failed to find the standard patterns of time inconsistency. However, such monetary studies contain often discussed confounds. In this...

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Feeling the Heat : Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations

Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2013

Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on physical and cognitive function? While many economic studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e.g. agriculture, conflict, sea-level rise), few address...

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Testing the Theory of Multitasking : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories

Hong, Fuhai - 2013

A well-recognized problem in the multitasking literature is that workers might substantially reduce their effort on tasks that produce unobservable outputs as they seek the salient rewards to observable outputs. Since the theory related to multitasking is decades ahead of the empirical evidence,...

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