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We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations … of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized … then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …
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We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
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significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. …
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In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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choosing whom to hire, they receive information about the past scores of pairs, not of individuals. We vary the observability … of individuals' abilities by ordering pair members either according to performance, or alphabetically by nickname. We …
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inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
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with supervisors. These findings suggest that communication and coordination costs increased substantially during WFH, and …
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We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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This study develops and validates the 'Individual Inclusiveness Inventory'. Collaboration and inclusion are key … diversity of thought and background but still encourages the group in a way as to maximise performance and productivity. To …
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