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Peer effects and students' self-control
Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia - 2014
We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and selfcontrol among undergraduate students. We use a behavioral measure of self-control based on whether students achieve study related goals they have set for themselves. We find that both self-control and the...
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The dynamic of COVID-19 new infections under different stringent policies
Razzak, Weshah A. - 2020
We estimate an unrestricted VAR to summarize the dynamics of the stringency of policy and COVID-19 infections in New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, and the U.S. using the newly published Stringency Index by the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, Hale et al. (2020)....
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Labour market miracle, productivity debacle : measuring the effects of skill-biased and skill-neutral technical change
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - In: Economic modelling 102 (2021), pp. 1-15
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The propagation of public health spending shocks
Atems, Bebonchu; Mette, Jehu - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 2, pp. 102-106
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Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change
Balleer, Almut - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
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Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change
Balleer, Almut - 2008
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. The evidence for this finding is based on the persistent parallel increase in the skill premium and the supply of skilled workers. What are the implications of skill-biased...
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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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The effects of skill-biased technical change on productivity flattening and hours worked
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017
In a structural macroeconometric analysis based on comprehensive micro data, we examine the role of skill-biased technical change for the flattening of productivity growth and effects on hours worked. The results show that more than 60 percent of the slowdown in productivity growth in Germany...
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Energy consumption and health outcomes in Africa
BenYoussef, Adel; Lannes, Laurence; Rault, Christophe; … - 2016
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are … between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption …
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The COVID-19 shock : a Bayesian approach
Younes, Oussama Abi; Altuğ, Sumru - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-15
The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global consequences. The spread of the virus led to the implementation of different preventive measures prior to the availability of effective vaccines. While many governments...
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