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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
And what happened is that we made a big story out of it, and as the congressional hearings were going on about normalizing relations, she came up during those hearings. And it was shortly thereafter that she was released. So we can't link the exact sort of View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
accelerate the decline of independents by increasing the attractiveness of smaller in-town store formats for retail chains. The causal impact of planning regulation is estimated using variation in local political control across the U.K.,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used experimental methodology, demonstrating that recalling a past instance of prosocial spending has a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
not suggesting that we can establish causal relationships, but it certainly gave us a deep intimate look at the attempts to grow expertise in a short period of time, and that's where I think there's a lot of applicability to most...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
causal relationship between the two. The problem, of course, is that only certain types of punches-punches to the stomach-produce stomachaches. "Without greater precision about mechanism, it would be easy to wrongly dismiss the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to literature streams on artificial...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
you’ve hired a young, skilled immigrant into the company, we tend to find—and we do our best to make this a causal statement and take out simple growth of the company and so forth—what you tend to find is that the company, overall, has...
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- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
a constructive identification result where the causal price parameter can be expressed as a function of the covariance of unobserved shocks. The function is estimated efficiently by the output of ordinary least squares regression. Thus,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
affects how perceivers evaluate and respond to the actor. This experiment reveals a theoretically novel and practically informative result that demonstrates the causal relation between preparatory nonverbal behavior and subsequent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has a consistent, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
and how to measure it. This depends on two critical factors: how much they know about causality in their interventions, and how much of their environment they can reasonably control," Ebrahim says. "Based on these two conditions, they can...
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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
perceptions, emotions, and motivations," Amabile says. "We call this 'inner work life,' and we found that it directly influences creativity and other aspects of performance." Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated the View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
will hopefully engender future (cross-disciplinary) research. The paper considers the challenges of distinguishing actual causal social interactions from other phenomena that may lead to a false inference of causality. Further, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
(a) fosters a longer-term perspective and (b) widens the firm’s scope; and ecosystem creation. While much of the dynamic capabilities literature has focused on testing causal relationships between key performance variables and constructs,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
literature on globalization. At the crudest level, historical evidence avoids spurious labeling of some phenomena as "new," and by so doing can challenge current explanations of their determinants. Historical evidence is crucial to exploring the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
headquarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We find that firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in decentralization in our...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
only give you one year.’ That was 10 years ago,” recalls Lee Shaw. The controversial media campaign—which included TV, print, billboard, and radio ads—saturated Montana from 2005 onward, with the effort spreading to six other states. However difficult it can be to show...
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