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Baker, Scott R.; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - 2022

We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …

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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …

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Gender differences in risk aversion: Do single-sex environments affect their development?

Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …

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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2022

We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation of the...

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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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