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- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
practice. Chi square tests were used to assess the correlations in the data. Among the careers that were tracked (n = 195), there was significant heterogeneity in current primary employment. The most common sectors were clinical (27.7%),...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16645 Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences for gambles versus...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
complete abandonment of the current system. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13213 Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Li Jin Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous firms. For our preferred calibration, the model...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
preferences for unbundling among agencies and their clients. Using microdata collected by the US Census Bureau from 1982 to 2007, the researchers found that agencies were more likely to unbundle if they were large and diversified in their...
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
threat—it can also reveal significant underlying heterogeneity in the old technology's broader demand environment. This heterogeneity is a source of opportunities that can support a new position for the old...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
holdings, we find considerable heterogeneity in investor demand for securitizations in the pre-crisis period. We argue that both investor beliefs and incentives help to explain this variation in demand. By contrast, our data paints a more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
consumption, reviewing research in which people forgo positive physical consumption—and even choose negative physical consumption—in order to engage in conceptual consumption. Finally, we outline how conceptual consumption informs research examining both View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and hybrid work? Are we heading back into the office? Is it going to be a heterogeneous blend? Where’s Gallup coming out on this?Harter: Our data are showing pretty consistently that people have settled into their View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
under Risk Authors:Eyal Ert and Ido Erev Abstract Five studies are presented that explore the assertion that losses loom larger than gains. The first two studies reveal equal sensitivity to gains and losses. For example, half of the participants View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Individuals' voting preferences are modeled using a random-coefficient aggregate discrete-choice model, in which we incorporate both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that different campaign activities have View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control...
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Sean Silverthorne