The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Positivity and...
A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on positivity and strengths-based approaches at workread more...
View ArticleMentoring in Nursing and Healthcare: Supporting Career and Personal Development
Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare: Supporting career and personal development is an innovative look into mentoring within nursing, and its implications for career success. It provides an up-to-date...
View ArticleManaging Packaging Design for Sustainable Development: A Compass for...
Packaging design is a powerful vehicle for making our lives friendlier, our planet greener and our businesses richer. It is an essential link between the producer and the customer, where it contributes...
View ArticleThe structural constraints of income inequality in Latin America....
Recent work has shown that a country's productive structure constrains its level of economic growth and income inequality. In this paper, we compare the productive structure of countries in Latin...
View ArticleParallelizing Computation of Expected Values in Recombinant Binomial Trees....
Recombinant binomial trees are binary trees where each non-leaf node has two child nodes, but adjacent parents share a common child node. Such trees arise in finance when pricing an option. For...
View ArticleInfrastructure conference in Westminster Tuesday 24th
A new organisation called NEKS (for âNew Economic Knowledge Servicesâ, see www.neks.ltd) is holding its inaugural conference on the economics of infrastructure In Westminster on Tuesday January...
View ArticleThe Quest for Parsimony in Behavioral Economics: New Methods and Evidence on...
Behavioral economics identifies myriad deviations from classical economic assumptions about consumer decision-making, but lacks evidence on how its diverse phenomena fit together and whether they are...
View ArticleThe Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa -- by Eoin McGuirk, Marshall Burke
We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of...
View ArticlePledgeability, Industry Liquidity, and Financing Cycles -- by Douglas W....
Why are downturns following prolonged episodes of high valuations of firms so severe and long? Why do firms promise high external payments when they anticipate high valuations, and underperform...
View ArticleEffects of Maternal Work Incentives on Youth Crime -- by Hope Corman, Dhaval...
This study exploits differences in the implementation of welfare reform across states and over time to identify causal effects of maternal work incentives, and by inference employment, on youth arrests...
View ArticleImperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation...
This paper measures changes in electricity generation costs caused by the introduction of market mechanisms to determine output decisions in service areas that were previously using...
View ArticleRelated Investing: Corporate Ownership and Capital Mobilization during Early...
Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as...
View ArticleThe Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of...
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in...
View ArticleTargeted Remedial Education: Experimental Evidence from Peru -- by Juan...
An outstanding challenge in education is improving learning among low-achieving students. We present results from the first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program...
View ArticleFDI and Capital Formation in Developing Economies: New Evidence from...
We contribute to the long debated issue of whether inward foreign direct investment (FDI) can stimulate investment in developing countries by introducing a novel measure of FDI, based on industry-level...
View ArticleOpen Borders in the European Union and Beyond: Migration Flows and Labor...
In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries...
View ArticleThe Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age --...
We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U.S. patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching inventors to Federal...
View ArticleExit, Tweets and Loyalty -- by Joshua S. Gans, Avi Goldfarb, Mara Lederman
Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of "voice" in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and...
View ArticleSubsidizing Fuel Efficient Cars: Evidence from China's Automobile Industry --...
The Chinese automobile market is the largest in the world with annual sales exceeding 20 million vehicles. The tremendous growth in sales---over 200 percent from 2008 to 2015---and concerns over local...
View ArticleThe Effect of State Medicaid Expansions on Prescription Drug Use: Evidence...
This study provides a national analysis of how the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions have affected aggregate prescription drug utilization. Given the prominent role of prescription...
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