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作者：Waldinger, Fabian
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：I investigate the effect of faculty quality on PhD student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. Faculty quality is a very important determinant of short- and long-run PhD student outcomes. A one-standard-deviation increase in faculty quality increases the probability of publishing the dissertation in a top journal by 13 percentage points, the probability of becoming a full professo...
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作者：Acemoglu, Daron
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper studies whether labor scarcity encourages technological advances, that is, technology adoption or innovation, for example, as claimed by Habakkuk in the context of nineteenth-century United States. I define technology as strongly labor saving if technological advances reduce the marginal product of labor and as strongly labor complementary if they increase it. I show that labor scarcity encourages technological advances if technology is strongly labor saving and will discourage them...
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作者：Erickson, Timothy; Whited, Toni M.
作者单位：United States Department of Labor; University of Rochester
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作者：Miller, Grant; Urdinola, B. Piedad
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Universidad Nacional de Colombia
摘要：Recent studies demonstrate procyclical mortality in wealthy countries, but there are reasons to expect a countercyclical relationship in developing nations. We investigate how child survival in Colombia responds to fluctuations in world arabica coffee prices and document starkly procyclical child deaths. In studying this result's behavioral underpinnings, we highlight that (1) the leading determinants of child health are inexpensive but require considerable time, and (2) as the value of time d...
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作者：Levav, Jonathan; Heitmann, Mark; Herrmann, Andreas; Iyengar, Sheena S.
作者单位：Columbia University; University of Kiel; University of St Gallen
摘要：Differentiated product models are predicated on the belief that a product's utility can be derived from the summation of utilities for its individual attributes. In one framed field experiment and two natural field experiments, we test this assumption by experimentally manipulating the order of attribute presentation in the product customization process of custom-made suits and automobiles. We find that order affects the design of a suit that people configure and the design and price of a car ...
