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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603514
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Diffusion in Social Networks: Experimental Evidence on Information Sharing vs Persuasion
Fafchamps, Marcel; Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; … - 2024
through our promotional campaign to test whether the product's diffusion among untargeted participants operates primarily … of diffusion, we would expect higher sign-up and take-up rates in information villages compared to persuasion villages …
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Demographic Transitions across Time and Space
Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2022
, diffusion. …
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … together on each variable in fairly similar circumstances. Suppose, finally, that the geographic pattern of diffusion is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293135
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The diffusion of information technology and the increased propensity of teams to transcend institutional and national borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across …
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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216751
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Cross Sections Are History
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … together on each variable in fairly similar circumstances. Suppose, finally, that the geographic pattern of diffusion is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638878
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The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023
Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...
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The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kong, Nancy; … - 2021
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale … scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability … important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given our study period (2017-2020) spans the onset of the …
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