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Guiso, Luigi - 2010

This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...

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Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?

Chinn, Menzie - 2005

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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit : the Story of Economic Genius

Ashenfelter, Orley C. - 2011

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but...

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Berman, Eli - 2000

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded - 2020

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...

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Text Selection

Kelly, Bryan T. - 2019

Text data is ultra-high dimensional, which makes machine learning techniques indispensable for textual analysis. Text is often selected--journalists, speechwriters, and others craft messages to target their audiences' limited attention. We develop an economically motivated high dimensional...

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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform

Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018

translation-related search costs. Our results provide causal evidence that language barriers significantly hinder trade and that …

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Measure for Measure : The relationship between measures of instructional practice in middle school English Language Arts and teachers' value-added scores

Grossman, Pam - 2010

any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …

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The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages

Desmet, Klaus - 2009

This paper proposes a new method to measure ethnolinguistic diversity and offers new results linking such diversity with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the...

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