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Non-Cognitive Abilities and Financial Delinquency : The Role of Self-Efficacy in Avoiding Financial Distress

Kuhnen, Camelia M. - 2017

-cognitive abilities have an important role in household financial decision making …

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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Frederiksen, Anders - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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What Do Performance Appraisals Do?

Cappelli, Peter - 2016

This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find that employee appraisal scores vary considerably both...

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Understanding Heterogeneity in the Effects of Birth Weight on Adult Cognition and Wages

Cook, C. Justin - 2015

A large economics literature has shown long term impacts of birth weight on adult outcomes, including IQ and earnings that are often robust to sibling or twin fixed effects. We examine potential mechanisms underlying these effects by incorporating findings from the genetics and neuroscience...

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The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations

Lavy, Victor - 2014

Cognitive performance during high-stakes exams can be affected by random disturbances that, even if transitory, may have permanent consequences for long-term schooling attainment and labor market outcomes. We evaluate this hypothesis among Israeli high school students who took a series of high...

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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Lin, Dajun - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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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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Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice

Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …

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Cognitive Economics

Kimball, Miles S. - 2015

Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …

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