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Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?

Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2019

In economics many articles are subjected to multiple rounds of refereeing at the same journal, which generates time … social sciences. We examine whether repeated refereeing produces any benefits, using an experiment at one journal that allows …, and other characteristics. There is no payoff to refereeing beyond the first round and no difference between accept …

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(Mis)Pricing in Loans to Businesses Owned by People of Color

Bradford, William D.; Wang, Chunbei; Lofstrom, Magnus; … - 2025

This study uses survey data on small business loans granted 2022 -2023 to explore racial disparities in the terms of loans to small firms. Similar data has not been available since the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF). We find that for Hispanic-, Asian American- and Black-owned...

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...

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A model of overconfidence

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009

People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...

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A Model of Overconfidence

Weinberg, Bruce A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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The Organizational Economics of School Chains

Neri, Lorenzo; Pasini, Elisabetta; Silva, Olmo - 2022

Although school autonomy is often advocated as a way to improve student achievement, many countries are experiencing a counterbalancing trend: the emergence of ‘chains’ that bind schools together into structures with varying degrees of centralization. Despite their prominence, no evidence...

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Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022

We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates from fixed effects regressions on a panel of organisations reveal that virtuous leadership is...

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Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...

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Using Domain-Specific Word Embeddings to Examine the Demand for Skills

Chaturvedi, Sugat; Mahajan, Kanika; Siddique, Zahra - 2023

We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to obtain word vector representations (i.e., word embeddings) and discuss how these can be leveraged for...

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