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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity
Kimball, Miles S. - 2009
Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using...
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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
Oyer, Paul - 2006
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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Making Entrepreneurs : Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the medium-term impacts of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) program, an innovative in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school students modeled after western business school curricula and adapted to the Ugandan context. The program featured two...
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The Best Business Schools : A Market Based Approach
Tracy, Joseph - 1994
We present a new methodology for ranking business schools. Unlike previous rankings based on subjective survey responses (from CEOs, business school deans, recruiters, or graduates), our approach uses data derived from the labor market for new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality...
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Inclusive Teaching : Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom
Alan, Sule - 2024
We evaluate an intervention designed to increase teachers' awareness of social isolation by providing them with their own students' social network and information on developmental risks associated with social exclusion. Using friendship data and incentive-compatible measures of antisocial and...
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Asymmetric Investment Rates
Bai, Hang; Li, Erica X. N.; Xue, Chen; Zhang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Integrating national accounting with financial accounting, we provide firm-specific estimates of current-cost capital …
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Bank Deregulation, Accounting Systems of Exchange, and the Unit of Account : A Critical Review
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1985
most transactions are carried out through an accounting system rather than any tangible medium of exchange, and (iii …
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Mandated Financial Reporting and Corporate Innovation
Breuer, Matthias - 2019
We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation activity. Exploiting thresholds in Europe's regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing a greater share of firms to publicly disclose their financial statements reduces firms' innovative...
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Research in Accounting for Income Taxes
Graham, John - 2010
This paper comprehensively reviews Accounting for Income Taxes (AFIT). The first half provides background and a primer …
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Bank-Tax Conformity for Corporate Income : An Introduction to the Issues
Hanlon, Michelle - 2005
This paper discusses the issues surrounding the proposals to conform financial accounting income and taxable income …. The two incomes diverged in the late 1990s with financial accounting income becoming increasingly greater than taxable … of earnings management for financial accounting and/or the tax sheltering of corporate income. Our paper outlines the …
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