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Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
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This paper offers an approach to assessing quality-of-life, based on Sen's (1985) theory, which it uses to understand …
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This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct capability measurement literature can be adapted for...
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which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by Sen's non-utilitarian approach … paper, therefore, we develop a framework for understanding wellbeing, drawing closely on Sen's seminal contributions to … implement fully Sen's theory to provide a much richer account of the wellbeing outcomes that derive from economic progress than …
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morale from groupthink and identifies a fundamental tension in organizations' attitudes toward dissent. Contagious exuberance …
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morale from groupthink and identifies a fundamental tension in organizations' attitudes toward dissent. Contagious exuberance …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer?s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array of observations pertaining...
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In this article, I summarize Griliches' contributions to economics and to applied econometrics.
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This paper celebrates the life and contributions of Gary Becker (1930-2014).
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