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Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making
Chen, Xi - 2018
Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915224
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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background
Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019
Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006616
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Smog, cognition and real-world decision making
Chen, Xi - 2018
Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in highstakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129101
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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2014
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491394
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Efficiency of health investment : education or intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464787
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Education, intelligence and diseases in old age
Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018
Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role in shaping this association. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874515
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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255933
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Data, information, knowledge and intelligence
Tang, Victor; Yanine, Fernando; Valenzuela, Lionel - In: International Journal of Innovation Science 8 (2016) 3, pp. 199-216
Purpose This paper is about data, information, knowledge and judgment; their definitions and their parallel cognitive … dimensionalities; and it is about their implications in innovation. This paper aims to discuss and illustrate the implications of this … cognitive framework on innovation science and on the ability to innovate. To that end, the authors use a progression of examples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014779688
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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297883
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Intelligence, Human Capital and HIV/AIDS: Fresh Exploration
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This study complements existing literature on the relationship between HIV/AIDS and human capital by introducing previously unexplored indicators as well as more robust empirical strategies. The overarching purpose is to assess whether previous findings on the relationship withstand empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390924