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When Parents Decide : Gender Differences in Competitiveness
Tungodden, Jonas; Willén, Alexander - 2022
Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field … more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …
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Central Exams and Adult Skills : Evidence from PIAAC
Leschnig, Lisa; Schwerdt, Guido; Zigova, Katarina - 2021
Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test scores. But critics warn that these effects may arise through the strategic behavior of students and...
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A primer on weather and climate intervention for economists
Knowles, Scott; Skidmore, Mark - 2019
There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention, though scientists have researched, tested and implemented numerous methods of weather modification for six decades. Also, climate-related geoengineering is steadily gaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018277
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Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Crowdfunders
Siemroth, Christoph; Hornuf, Lars - 2021
Are investors willing to give up a higher return if the investment generates positive environmental impact? We investigate this question with a decision experiment among crowdfunders, where they choose between a higher return or environmental impact. Overall, 65% of investors choose...
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Floods and Spillovers : Households after the 2011 Great Flood in Thailand
Noy, Ilan - 2019
In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the flood's economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use this self-identified flood exposure, and external...
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
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Small and Medium Sized European Firms and Energy Efficiency Measures: A Probit Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2022
This paper investigates the factors (such as different sources of financing, energy audits and internal monitoring … performance index (EPI) and on the level of economic development in turn. The results indicate that internal financing always has … a positive effect on a firm's propensity to adopt EEMs. Private external sources of financing appear to be more …
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European SMEs and Resource Efficiency Measures: Firm Characteristics and Contextual Factors
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023
This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...
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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2015
We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...
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Optimization Over Graphs
Kwon, Suehyun - 2019
This paper defines isomorphism for network formation that is not mathematically isomorphic. Once the pattern of network formation is characterized, one can test for (i) location fixed effects, (ii) heterogeneity, (iii) private information allowing for long-term contracts. The paper provides...
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