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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
... This paper examines the rationality of decision making of NBA scouts and executives by addressing the question of whether a player’s performance in the NCAA “March Madness” college championship basketball ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE ON FDI DETERMINANTS. Bruce A. Blonigen
... The paper’s treatment of both the MNE’s financing options and its trade linkages is the strength of the paper. However, this is a weakness as well, since the effect of the exchange rate and its expected movements ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENT AND GENDER GAPS IN ADULTHOOD
... What are the characteristics of areas that produce lower employment rates for low-income boys relative to girls in adulthood? In Figure 4, we correlate the male-female gender difference in employment rates for children ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DISCRETION IN HIRING. Mitchell Hoffman Lisa B. Kahn Danielle Li. Working Paper
... Our paper makes the following contributions. First, we provide new evidence that managers systematically make hiring decisions that are not in the interest of the rm. This generates increased turnover in a setting ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLANS. Gary V. Engelhardt Brigitte C. Madrian. Working Paper
... The second savings plan sponsored by the company is the QESPP. The features of this company’s employee stock purchase plan are fairly standard. The plan has two annual offering periods that begin on January 1 and July 1 ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE
... This paper was previously circulated as "The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and ...the NBER conference on the “Causes and Consequences of Corporate Culture”, ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
... not working for a single veteran and about 70 percent of the opportunity cost for a married veteran, based on the monthly median income for the population in 1947 ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POLITICS 2.0: THE MULTIFACETED EFFECT OF BROADBAND INTERNET ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
... This paper tackles these questions in the context of the introduction of high-speed (broadband) Inter- net in Italy, a developed country with solid democratic institutions, but where traditional media, such as TV ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LIFE INSURANCE OF THE ELDERLY: ADEQUACY AND DETERMINANTS. Alan 3. Auerbach. Laurence 3. Kotlikoff. Working Paper No.
... Assuming the husband's life insurance is positive, the theory predicts that properly valued income streams of the wife, including her labor earnings, public and private pension benefits,[r] ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY ARE WE IN A RECESSION? THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IS THE SYMPTOM NOT THE DISEASE!
... Current account deficits in and by themselves are of course not necessarily bad, pro- vided the capital flows that occur to balance those deficits are put to productive use (e.g. infrast[r] ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CAPITAL ACCOUNT LIBERALIZATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: SURVEY AND SYNTHESIS
... a paper by these two authors and Lundblad (2001) to 95 countries, 16 of which had liberalized stock markets over the full period 1980 to 1997 and 27 of which had some experience with stock market liberalizations ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ON CURRENT ACCOUNT SURPLUSES AND THE CORRECTION OF GLOBAL IMBALANCES. Sebastian Edwards
... current paper the long run current account balance does converge in the long run towards φ NEPGDP j * ...this paper I have included the deviations of (per capita) growth from long term trend, Chinn and ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RELATIVE PRICES AND SECTORAL PRODUCTIVITY. Margarida Duarte Diego Restuccia
... Our paper relates to a growing quantitative literature on the role of services in the ...Our paper also relates to a literature emphasizing the role of input-output structure of the economy such as Jones ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF TORT REFORM ON EMPLOYER-SPONSORED HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS
... We find evidence that caps on non-economic damages, collateral source reform, and joint and several liability reform reduce self-insured premiums by 1 to 2 percent each.. When the effe[r] ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR TERM LIFE INSURANCE AND ADVERSE SELECTION
... We estimate a person-specific marginal premium by subtracting the class-average fixed cost from the CompuLife pricing regressions from the annual premium the person paid for the life i[r] ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CONTRIBUTION OF TRADE TO WAGE INEQUALITY: THE ROLE OF SKILL, GENDER, AND NATIONALITY
... The matched employee-employer dataset on German establishments used in this analysis combines the IAB establishment panel from the German Labor Agency with its LIAB employee panel. 5 The matching of workers with the ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF CHILDREN'S PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE EXPANSIONS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
... Although public insurance expansions were primarily designed to cover the uninsured, one possible response is for individuals to give up their private insurance coverage and replace it with less expensive public ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ECONOMICS OF CHARITY: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT
... Given that the average contribution level for households that contribute in the single-prize lottery treatment is $4.16 – a single unit increase in performance motivation and self-effi[r] ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Lance Lochner. Working Paper
... This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
... Besides being (among) the first to estimate the effect of these laws on the educational outcomes of undocumented immigrants, this study adds to the more general literature on the effect of college costs on educational ...
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