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their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …
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relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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An emerging literature documents the many challenges faced by college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is … known, however, about how students responded to the adversity. Focusing on two large Canadian universities, we provide some … of the first evidence on the coping strategies students reported and the relationships between their endorsement of …
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How accurate is a log-linear approximation of the New Keynesian model when the nominal interest rate is bounded by zero? This paper compares the solution of the exact non-linear model to the log-linear approximation. It finds that the difference is modest. This applies even for extreme events in...
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new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality of entering students in an attempt to distinguish value added from … the quality of incoming students. We then rank programs according to value added. Our results are rather surprising. While … rankings since they do not recruit the very top students. We explore the determinants of our value added and student quality …
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in religiosity of students majoring in the social sciences and humanities, but a rise in religiosity for those in …
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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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in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school students modeled after western business school curricula and adapted …
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We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...
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We seek to determine the causes and magnitudes of network externalities for the automated clearinghouse (ACH) electronic payments system. We construct an equilibrium model of customer and bank adoption of ACH. We structurally estimate the parameters of the model using an indirect inference...
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