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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa

Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...

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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...

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Financial Education Affects Financial Knowledge and Downstream Behaviors

Kaiser, Tim - 2020

have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment …

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Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication Among Older Americans

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2009

own retirement security, this lack of knowledge has serious implications …

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Financial Literacy among the Young : Evidence and Implications for Consumer Policy

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2009

showed that financial literacy is low among the young; fewer than one-third of young adults possess basic knowledge of …

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How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions : Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2009

knowledge acquired in school - before entering the labor market and certainly before starting to plan for retirement. Results … show that those with more advanced financial knowledge are those more likely to be retirement-ready …

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Financial Literacy : An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2008

Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy...

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Planning and Financial Literacy : How Do Women Fare?

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2008

Many older US households have done little or no planning for retirement, and there is a substantial population that seems to undersave for retirement. Of particular concern is the relative position of older women, who are more vulnerable to old-age poverty due to their longer longevity. This...

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Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation

van Rooij, Maarten - 2007

whether individuals have the financial knowledge and skills to navigate this new financial environment. To better understand … Survey. We have designed questions to measure numeracy and basic knowledge related to the working of inflation and interest … rates, as well as questions to measure more advanced financial knowledge related to financial market instruments (stocks …

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The Outlook for Financial Literacy

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2011

As the world becomes more financially integrated and complex, average individuals and their families are increasingly faced with making highly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible financial decisions. Nowhere is this more evident than with regard to retirement decision-making. Indeed,...

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