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significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no … statistical gender differences. These results and broader patterns documented in the study are consistent with significant … heterogeneity in competitiveness across both men and women, with field and career sorting resulting in differences (in gender …
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Economic policies often involve dynamic interventions, where individuals receive repeated interventions over multiple periods. This dynamics makes past responses informative to predict future responses and ultimate outcomes depend on the history of interventions. Despite these phenomena,...
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agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different … greater gender discrimination …
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significant reductions in innovation activity. Manufacturers decreased market entry and increased outsourcing to foreign producers …, associated with higher rates of product defects. Our calculations suggest the value of lost innovation may fully offset the … effects. These findings underscore the need to balance cost containment with incentives for innovation and quality in policy …
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imprint on the postwar U.S. biomedical innovation system. Research areas it supported experienced rapid growth in postwar …
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If further decarbonization of electricity systems is to continue, a next generation of innovation in transformative … determinants of innovation in this sector to glean insights on how government may support the development and deployment of these … technologies. We argue that policies that were successful at supporting the first wave of renewables innovation may not be …
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increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
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We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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highest for older households and households with low income, education, housing wealth, and financial wealth, making it the …
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market participation and financial wealth. Among participants, the average financial wealth elasticity of the risky share is … aversion. Furthermore, the financial wealth elasticity of the risky share itself is heterogeneous across investors and varies … strongly with characteristics. The elasticity decreases with financial wealth and human capital, and increases with habit, real …
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