preference. In a majority of smokers, we find strong evidence of the use of a lexicographic decision rule to assess the riskiness … strongly confirmed the lexicographic nature of the underlying decision rule. Our study represents an entirely different angle …

significantly less risk-taking than non-competitive rewards. In contrast, when decision-makers receive information about their peers …-taking strategies. However, decision-makers take more risk when they see the gaps between their performance score and their peers …

differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment … hiring and training response is quicker than the wage response. We also observe in time series that the pace of technology … technology, maturing of the workforce, and growth of international trade reduce unemployment in the longer run. The same …

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first … conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large …

which "experience"on a technology (proxied by the mean age of the capital stock) enters "non-neutrally." Our specification … technology embodied therein) ages. According to our estimates, the education-distribution of employment depends more strongly on …

that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the … technology.The second part of the paper is to show how two countries, one with heavy R&D activities in basic technology (the U ….S.A.)and the other with heavy R&D activities in applied technology(Japan), can compete in the world market with their productivity …

and technology differences across both goods and production stages. We estimate technology and trade costs via the …