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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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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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Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …
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have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment …
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own retirement security, this lack of knowledge has serious implications …
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showed that financial literacy is low among the young; fewer than one-third of young adults possess basic knowledge of …
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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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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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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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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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