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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Barattieri, Alessandro - 2010
The main results of the analysis are as follows. 1) After correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very …
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Unpacking Social Capital
Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social …
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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts : Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations
Dietrich, Alexander M.; Knotek, Edward S.; Myrseth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
conventional and aggregated inflation expectations. Our results chart a new course for designing measurement of inflation …
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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Digital Addiction
Allcott, Hunt; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Song, Lena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...
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Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition : Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19
Ganguli, Ina; Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how large shocks impact individuals' skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as telework,...
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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News : Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Simonov, Andrey - 2020
We test for and measure the effects of cable news in the US on regional differences in compliance with recommendations by health experts to practice social distancing during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal effect of Fox News...
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Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses : Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy
Durante, Ruben - 2009
differing ideologies. We use data from Italy, where the main private television network is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, the … leader of the center-right coalition, and the public television corporation is largely controlled by the ruling coalition … center-left to the center-right, news content on public television shifted to the right. Second, we find evidence that …
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Superstar CEOs
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2008
Compensation, status, and press coverage of managers in the U.S. follow a highly skewed distribution: a small number of 'superstars' enjoy the bulk of the rewards. We evaluate the impact of CEOs achieving superstar status on the performance of their firms, using prestigious business awards to...
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Fixed Costs and the Product Market Treatment of Preference Minorities
Berry, Steven - 2014
It is well documented that, in the presence of substantial fixed costs, markets offer preference majorities more variety than preference minorities. This fact alone, however, does not demonstrate the market outcome is in any way biased against preference minorities. In this paper, we clarify the...
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