作者：Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a linear index-known as a polygenic score-are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We present two main sets of results. First, we find evidence that the genetic factors measured by this score interact strongly with childhood socioeconomic status in determining educational ...
作者：Bouvard, Matthieu; Levy, Raphael
作者单位：McGill University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：We study how a decision maker uses his reputation to simultaneously influence the actions of multiple receivers with heterogenous biases. The reputational payoff is single-peaked around a bliss reputation at which the incentives of the average receiver are perfectly aligned. We establish the existence of two equilibria characterized by repositioning toward this bliss reputation that only differ through a multiplier capturing the efficiency of reputational incentives. Repositioning is moderate ...
