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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production : Evidence from US States 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio - 2011
We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...
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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
demand for decision-making and explores the consequences for life-cycle earnings. Career earnings growth in the U.S. more … substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more … gradual periods of earnings growth. To understand these patterns, I develop a model that nests decision-making in a standard …
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A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior
Coffman, Katherine B.; Ugalde Araya, Paola; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …
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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?
Chenoweth, Erica; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine individuals' decisions to attend protests during the summer of 2020. Our analysis examines two simultaneous movements: Black Lives Matter along with protests calling for less stringent public health measures to combat the COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our...
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461999
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International Trade : Linking Micro and Macro
Eaton, Jonathan - 2012
A recent literature has introduced heterogeneous firms into models of international trade. This literature has adopted the convention of treating individual firms as points on a continuum. While the continuum offers many advantages this convenience comes at some cost: (1) Shocks to individual...
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2011
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
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Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions
Angeletos, George-Marios - 2011
This paper studies optimal policy in a business-cycle setting in which firms have a blurry understanding of the state of the economy due to informational or cognitive constraints. The latter are not only the source of nominal rigidity but also an impediment in the coordination of production. The...
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Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Generate Alpha
Del Guercio, Diane - 2011
find that flows chase risk-adjusted returns, and that funds respond by investing more in active management. Importantly …
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