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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue
Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights
Helpman, Elhanan - 1992
analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …
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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014
The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are …
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Risk Management and the Autonomy of Labor
Dambaur, Andreas J.; Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foresightful workers can take actions to reduce their exposure to risk in labor markets, but existing evidence on narrow bracketing suggests that individuals might not optimally integrate risk reduction decisions with subsequent labor decisions. In an online labor market, we vary the level of...
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Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) and developed more fully by Goldin and Katz (2007). I also review...
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Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments : Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study
Heinesen, Eskil; Hvid, Christian; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit the identification argument of Kirkeboen et al. (2016) who showed how one may combine instruments for multiple unordered treatments with information about individuals' ranking of these treatments to achieve identification while allowing for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity...
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Cognitive Decline and Dynamic Selection
Darden, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality and sample attrition. I study this dynamic selection...
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Labor Supply and Occupational Choice
Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Kambourov, Gueorgui; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a robust negative relationship between mean annual hours in an occupation and the dispersion of annual hours within that occupation. We study a unified model of occupational choice and labor supply that features heterogeneity across occupations in the return to working additional...
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Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop and estimate a life-cycle consumption savings model in which observed genetic variation is allowed to affect wealth accumulation through several distinct channels. We focus on genetic markers that predict educational attainment, aggregated into a predictive index called a polygenic...
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North-South R&D Spillovers
Coe, David T. - 1995
knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of … intermediate products and capital equipment embodying foreign knowledge, and by acquiring useful information that would otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473841