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Columbia Business School Research

At the Forefront of Their Fields

At Columbia Business School, our faculty members are at the forefront of research in their respective fields, offering innovative ideas that directly impact the practice of business today. A quick glance at our publication on faculty research, CBS Insights, will give you a sense of the breadth and immediacy of the insight our professors provide.

As a student at the School, this will greatly enrich your education. In Columbia classrooms, you are at the cutting-edge of industry, studying the practices that others will later adopt and teach. As any business leader will tell you, in a competitive environment, being first puts you at a distinct advantage over your peers. Learn economic development from Ray Fisman, the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and a rising star in the field, or real estate from Chris Mayer, the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, a renowned expert and frequent commentator on complex housing issues. This way, when you complete your degree, you'll be set up to succeed.

The Columbia Advantage

Columbia Business School in conjunction with the Office of the Dean provides its faculty, PhD students, and other research staff with resources and cutting edge tools and technology to help push the boundaries of business research.

Specifically, our goal is to seamlessly help faculty set up and execute their research programs. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Highly skilled staff of full-time predoctoral fellows, summer research interns, and part-time research assistants
  • Access to centralized funding from the Dean's office and external grants to support research activities
  • Providing a state-of-the-art high-performance grid computing environment
  • Acquisition of proprietary data sets and access to various databases
  • Leading library which provides faculty with latest tools and techniques to enable digital scholarship

All these activities help to facilitate and streamline faculty research, and that of the doctoral students working with them.

Featured Research

Be a better manager: Live abroad

Authors
W. Maddux, Adam Galinsky, and C. Tadmor
Date
January 1, 2010
Format
Journal Article
Journal
Harvard Business Review

The article offers the authors' views on expatriate management programs and the benefits from executives interacting with the people and institutions of the host country. The idea that international experience or interaction between foreign managers and local people will help managers become more creative, entrepreneurial, and successful is discussed. The concept of integrative complexity in bi-cultural managers which enhances job performance is mentioned.

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The Kidney Case

Authors
D. Austen-Smith, T. Feddersen, Adam Galinsky, and K. Liljenquist
Date
January 1, 2010
Format
Case Study
Publisher
Kellogg School of Management, Dispute Resolution Research Center

The Kidney Case is multi-person exercise that involves the allocation of a single kidney. Students read profiles of eight candidates for the kidney and make a first allocation decision. Each candidate was designed to be high on some allocation principles but low or unknown on others (e.g., best, match, time in cue, age, personal responsibility for disease, future benefits to society, etc.). Then, students are put into groups and assigned to advocate for one of the candidates. Each group will prepare and give a 3-minute presentation on why their candidate should receive the kidney.

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Mitigating Disaster Risks in The Age Of Climate Change

Authors
Harrison Hong, Jinqiang Yang, and Neng Wang
Date
Forthcoming
Format
Journal Article

Emissions abatement alone cannot address the consequences of global warming for weather disasters. We model how society adapts to manage disaster risks to capital stock. Optimal adaptation — a mix of firm-level efforts and public spending — varies as society learns about the adverse consequences of global warming for disaster arrivals. Taxes on capital are needed alongside those on carbon to achieve the first best.

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Returns to Education through Access to Higher-Paying Firms: Evidence from US Matched Employer-Employee Data

Authors
Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser
Date
May 1, 2017
Format
Journal Article
Journal
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings

What are the sources of the returns to education? We study the allocation of higher education graduates from public institutions in Ohio across firms. We present three results. First, we confirm findings in the earlier literature of large pay differences across degrees. Second, we show that up to one quarter of pay premiums for higher degrees are explained by between-firm pay differences. Third, higher education degrees are associated with greater representation at the best-paying firms.

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Putting on the pressure: How to make threats in negotiations

Authors
Adam Galinsky and K. Liljenquist
Date
January 1, 2004
Format
Journal Article
Journal
Negotiation

This article focuses on the role of threats in negotiations. Broadly speaking, a threat is a proposition that issues demands and warns of the costs of noncompliance. Even if neither party resorts to them, potential threats shadow most negotiations. Researchers have found that people actually evaluate their counterparts more favorably when they combine promises with threats rather than extend promises alone. Whereas promises encourage exploitation, the threat of punishment motivates cooperation.

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Date
2011

What Do CEOs Do?

Author
Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun

We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea — sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up — is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues. We follow 94 CEOs of top-600 Italian firms over a pre-specified week and record the time devoted each day to different work activities. We focus on the distinction between time spent with insiders (employees of the firm) and outsiders (people not employed by the firm).

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2011

What Good Are Hubs? Preferences for New Product Information Sources

Author
Goldenberg, Jacob, Donald Lehmann, Daniela Shidlovski, and Michal Master Barak
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Journal Article
Date
2011
Journal
Review of Financial Studies

What Segments Equity Markets?

Author
Bekaert, Geert, Campbell Harvey, Christian Lundblad, and Stephan Siegel

We propose a new, valuation-based measure of world equity market segmentation. While we observe decreased levels of segmentation in many developing countries, the level of segmentation is still significant. In contrast to previous research, we characterize the factors that account for variation in market segmentation both through time as well as across countries.

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Journal Article
Date
2011
Journal
Journal of Economic Perspectives

When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior

Author
Gneezy, Uri, Stephan Meier, and Pedro Rey-Biel

First we discuss how extrinsic incentives may come into conflict with other motivations. For example, monetary incentives from principals may change how tasks are perceived by agents, with negative effects on behavior. In other cases, incentives might have the desired effects in the short term, but they still weaken intrinsic motivations. To put it in concrete terms, an incentive for a child to learn to read might achieve that goal in the short term, but then be counterproductive as an incentive for students to enjoy reading and seek it out over their lifetimes.

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2011

When Does the Past Repeat Itself? The Interplay of Behavior Prediction and Personal Norms

Author
Chandon, Pierre, Ronn J. Smith Ronn J. Smith, Vicki Morwitz, Eric R. Spangenberg, and David E. Sprott
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Journal Article
Date
2011
Journal
Psychological Science

When focusing on differences leads to similar perspectives

Author
Todd, A., K. Hanko, Adam Galinsky, and T. Mussweiler

The current research investigated whether mind-sets and contexts that afford a focus on self-other differences can facilitate perceptual and conceptual forms of perspective taking. Supporting this hypothesis, results showed that directly priming a difference mind-set made perceivers more likely to spontaneously adopt other people's visual perspectives (Experiment 1) and less likely to overimpute their own privileged knowledge to others (Experiments 2 and 3).

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Journal Article
Date
2011
Journal
Journal of International Economics

When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?

Author
Ju, Jiandong and Shang-Jin Wei

Dominant theories of trade tend to ignore the role of finance as a source of comparative advantage. On the other hand, the finance literature places financial institutions as a driver of economic growth. This paper unites these two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. For economies with high-quality institutions (defined by the competitiveness of the financial sector, the quality of corporate governance, and the level of property rights protection), finance is passive.

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Journal Article
Date
2011
Journal
Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Why bank governance is different

Author
Becht, Marco and Patrick Bolton

This paper reviews the pattern of bank failures during the financial crisis and asks whether there was a link with corporate governance. It revisits the theory of bank governance and suggests a multiconstituency approach that emphasizes the role of weak creditors. The empirical evidence suggests that, on average, banks with stronger risk officers, less independent boards, and executives with less variable remuneration incurred fewer losses. There is no evidence that institutional shareholders opposed aggressive risk-taking.

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Journal Article
Date
2011
Journal
Harvard Business Review

Why fair bosses fall behind

Author
Wiesenfeld, B., N. Rothman, S. Wheeler-Smith, and Adam Galinsky

The article discusses research that shows managers who are perceived as being tough and wielding power are more likely to be promoted than others. The author cites the example of drug maker Pfizer, where in 2001 the no-nonsense Hank McKinnell was hired as chief executive instead of the more collegial Karen Katen. In 2006 Pfizer got rid of McKinnel for poor performance.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Interest Rates and the Postretirement Benefit Expense

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Nissim, Doron
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Case Study
Date
2010

Vonage Call Center Design

Author
Federgruen, Awi
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2010
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The Washington Post

In a networked world, no longer controlling our own destinies

Author
Heal, Geoffrey and Howard Kunreuther
The central problem of today's networked world of interdependent security is that the risks faced by your part of the system aren't preventable by you alone, they depend on the actions of others as well. Put another, starker way: we no longer control our own destinies.
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Influence of Boards of Directors on Chinese Joint Venture Performance

Author
Harrigan, Kathryn and Wei Yang

The efficacy of corporate governance practices are examined in the context of Boards that govern Chinese joint ventures. Results suggest that Board independence and diversity improve JV performance, while larger Boards reduce the dividends paid by JV. Findings are consistent with that adage that manageable-sized Boards should be preferred over larger ones that attempt to include the viewpoints of all possible affected constituents.

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Book
Date
2010

Activists, Categories and Markets: Racial Diversity and Protests against Wal-Mart Store Openings in America

Author
Rao, Hayagreeva, Lori Yue, and Paul Ingram

Identity movements rely on a shared "we-feeling" amongst a community of participants. In turn, such shared identities are possible when movement participants can self-categorize themselves as belonging to one group. We address a debate as to whether community diversity enhances or impedes such protests, and investigate the role of racial diversity since it is a simple, accessible, and visible basis of community diversity and social categorization.

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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2010
Publication
e21

How Spain Can Avoid the Irish Error

Author
Calomiris, Charles and Desmond Lachman
In seeking solutions for the euro zone debt crisis, the more manageable Irish and Spanish cases should be distinguished from the much less tractable Greek case of egregious budget profligacy. Years of fiscal irresponsibility make it almost certain that Greece will default on its sovereign debt and exit from the euro zone, absent a massive fiscal transfer from the EU. Greece?s public debt (already approaching an unsustainable 150% of GDP and still rising) simply cannot be repaid.
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Working Paper
Date
2010

From International Experience to Inclusive Leadership: The Intervening Roles of Global Identity and Cultural Mindfulness

Author
Mor, Shira and Michael Morris
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Geographic Fragmentation, Entry and the Decline of Dominant Incumbent

Author
Harrigan, Kathryn and Lalit Manral

Contact Lalit Manral at [email protected] for a copy of the manuscript.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Private Information and Market Making in Secondary Mortgage Markets

Author
Mayer, Christopher

This paper examines whether underwriters of prime mortgage-backed securities exploit private information when trading in the secondary market. While underwriters bid on more than 83 percent of their own tranches, the tranches they avoid bidding on have fewer bidders and exhibit worse-than-average ex-post performance. Most strikingly, when an underwriter declines to submit a bid at a secondary market sale, 30-day delinquent loans are about 3 times as likely to roll to 60-days delinquent in the next month compared to pools where the underwriter bids.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Rating Asset-Backed Securities

Author
Faltin-Traeger, Oliver, Kathleen Johnson, and Christopher Mayer

One of the most important features of securitization is the ability to create securities whose credit risk is based on the quality of a pool of loans rather than the credit risk of the lender who originated the assets. However, the recent failure of many specialized lenders who relied on securitization, and the subsequent extremely poor performance of their securities, raises the question whether the performance of the security can be separated from the financial condition of its sponsor.

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Case Study
Date
2010

Relevant costs for making production decisions: Was General Motors making the correct choice in producing high volumes of autos?

Author
Rockoff, Jonah, Trevor Harris, and Nachum Sicherman

In deciding the type and quantity of vehicles to produce, it is important that managers anticipate the quantity of products or services customers will demand at various price levels — and the associated costs. This case asks students to analyze the data and consider whether GM's management made the wrong business decision in producing the cars they did.

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Case Study
Date
2010

Revising Case 1: Associate Task written by Lynne Sagalyn

Author
Piskorski, Tomasz and Neng Wang
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Case Study
Date
2010

111 Eighth Avenue: Recapitalizing the Opportunistic Buy

Author
Yang, Jane and Lynne Sagalyn
In 1999, Taconic Investment Partners, a real estate investment firm, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund became the key investors in a warehouse that occupies entire block in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. Four years later, the former warehouse has been transformed into a Class A office property, and outperformed all expectations. In this case, students determine the best strategy for how the partners can harvest some of the value they created. Should they sell, or possibly restructure the deal? If they pursue equity capital, will their current partners find the terms acceptable?
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2010
Publication
Financial Times

Can America Afford FCC Chairman Genachowski?

Author
Noam, Eli
FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, was widely applauded when he was nominated two years ago. His resume was impeccable for the job. He was trusted by Obama. He commanded a dependable majority on the typically fractious Commission. He could rely on the Democratic control of the relevant Congressional committees. Times were tough, and people looked again to government for leadership. Regulation was not a dirty word anymore. Infrastructure and stimulus were in. And yet, two years later, what has his agency — hardworking, competent, smart people — to show for its efforts? Very little.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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2010
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Defining Ideas

Real Prudential Regulatory Reform vs. Dodd-Frank

Author
Calomiris, Charles
The Dodd-Frank reforms, like the Basel Committee's increase in minimum required equity capital, are supposed to address regulatory failings and thereby reduce the risk of crises. Which regulatory failings magnified the recent crisis? Do the reforms address them? If not, what would?
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Case Study
Date
2010

UnderArmour-Protect This IPO or Sale to a Strategic Bidder?

Author
Hitscherich, Donna
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Case Study
Date
2010

ZigZag Zippers: Funding a Long-term Capital Project

Author
Broadie, Mark

ZigZag Zippers planned a $90 million renovation of their 100-year-old factory site. What was the least expensive option for funding this long-term project?

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Book
Date
2010

Accounting for Value

Author
Penman, Stephen

Accounting for Value teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. The book's novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Analysis and Forecasting of Operating Profitability

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Nissim, Doron
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Analysis and Valuation of Insurance Companies

Author
Nissim, Doron

During 2008 and 2009, the insurance industry experienced unprecedented volatility. The large swings in insurers' market valuations, and the significant role that financial reporting played in the uncertainty surrounding insurance companies during that period, highlight the importance of understanding insurers' financial information and its implications for the risk and value of insurance companies.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Bolstering the Chosen Brand: Evidence for Alterations in Attribute Importance Weights

Author
Zemborain, Martin, Gita Johar, and Asim Ansari
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Distribution Builder: A Tool for Measuring Preferences for Investment Risk

Author
Goldstein, Daniel, Eric Johnson, and William Sharpe
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Mediators of Loss Aversion

Author
Johnson, Eric, S. Gaechter, and A. Herrmann
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2010
Publication
Education Week

Moving Mountains in New York City: Joel Klein's Legacy by the Numbers

Author
Liebman, James and Jonah Rockoff

Joel I. Klein's legacy as New York City's schools chancellor will ultimately be defined by results. Did he improve student outcomes across the board?

We believe the answer is an unequivocal yes. Comparing the academic achievement of the city's 1.1 million children when Klein took over to current levels, the city moved mountains.

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Date
2010
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Social Science Research Network

Not just holding forth: The effect of listening on leadership effectiveness

Author
Brockner, Joel, Daniel Ames, and Lily Benjamin
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Observing Unobserved Heterogeneity: Using Process Data to Enhance Choice Models

Author
Johnson, Eric, Bruce G. S. Hardie, R. J. Meyer, and John Walsh
People use different strategies when making choices. Modeling this choice process heterogeneity, however, is difficult using just the data provided by most standard choice experiments. We try to capture process heterogeneity by augmenting choice models with variables derived from information-acquisition data gathered unobtrusively during choice tasks. These variables supplement standard logit specifications which identify how an individual used the attributes and attribute values to screen and rank alternatives in making a choice.
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Working Paper
Date
2010

Operating Profit Variation Analysis: Implications for Future Earnings and Equity Values

Author
Badia, Marc, Nahum Melumad, and Doron Nissim

This study investigates the information content of variation analysis—that is, analysis of year-over-year changes in the components of operating profit. Using industry level data, we find that the effects on profitability of changes in the prices of output products and costs of intermediate inputs are more persistent than the effects of changes in output volume, labor cost, labor productivity, and intermediate input productivity. We further show that this information is priced by investors.

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Journal Article
Date
2010
Journal
Effective Executive

Organizing for Marketing ROI

Author
Sexton, Don

Many companies do not know their marketing ROI because their organizations are not set up to evaluate marketing ROI.

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Type
Journal Article
Date
2010
Journal
Administrative Science Quarterly

Organizing the In-Between: The Population Dynamics of Network Weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network

Author
Ingram, Paul and Magnus Thor Torfason

This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate networks that influenced global economic relations, peace, and democracy in the 1815–2000 period show that IGO founding and failure depends on the ease and value of specific interstate relations.

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Journal Article
Date
2010
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<a href="http://ejcr.org/">Journal of Consumer Research</a>

Regulatory Focus, Regulatory Fit, and the Search and Consideration of Choice Alternatives

Author
Pham, Michel Tuan and Hannah Chang

This research investigates the effects of regulatory focus on alternative search and consideration set formation in consumer decision making. Results from three experiments yield two primary findings. First, promotion‐focused consumers tend to search for alternatives at a more global level, whereas prevention‐focused consumers tend to search for alternatives at a more local level. Second, promotion‐focused consumers tend to have larger consideration sets than do prevention‐focused consumers.

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2010

Social Networks and Subjective Well-Being: The Effect of Regulatory Fit

Author
Zou, Xi, Paul Ingram, and E. Tory Higgins

What type of social network is associated with greater well-being? We argue that the effects of social networks on well-being depend on individuals' self-regulatory orientation — a basic motivational factor. We propose that brokerage networks fit a promotion-focused orientation that is concerned with eagerly pursuing gains, whereas closure networks fit a prevention-focused orientation that is concerned with vigilantly maintaining non-losses.

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Journal Article
Date
2010
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Journal of Empirical Finance

Stock and Bond Returns with Moody Investors

Author
Bekaert, Geert, Eric Engstrom, and Steven Grenadier

<p>We present a tractable, linear model for the simultaneous pricing of stock and bond returns that incorporates stochastic risk aversion. In this model, analytic solutions for endogenous stock and bond prices and returns are readily calculated. After estimating the parameters of the model by the general method of moments, we investigate a series of classic puzzles of the empirical asset pricing literature.

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Journal Article
Date
2010
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Journal of Public Economics

Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools

Author
Lockwood, Benjamin and Jonah Rockoff

We examine the implications of separating students of different grade levels across schools for the purposes of educational production. Specifically, we find that moving students from elementary to middle school in 6th or 7th grade causes significant drops in academic achievement. These effects are large (about 0.15 standard deviations), present for both math and English, and persist through grade 8, the last year for which we have achievement data. The effects are similar for boys and girls, but stronger for students with low levels of initial achievement.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Underwriting Costs of Seasoned Equity Offerings: Cross-Sectional Determinants and Technological Change, 1980&ndash;2008

Author
Calomiris, Charles
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Date
2010
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Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics Papers and Proceedings 2010

What Have We Learned About Development Economics?

Author
Heal, Geoffrey
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2010

Has medical innovation reduced cancer mortality?

Author
Lichtenberg, Frank

We examine the effects of two important types of medical innovation—diagnostic imaging innovation and pharmaceutical innovation—and cancer incidence rates on U.S. cancer mortality rates during the period 1996–2006. The outcome measure we use is not subject to lead-time bias, and our measures of medical innovation are based on extensive data on treatments given to large numbers of patients with different types of cancer.

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Working Paper
Date
2010

Racial Neutrality and Racial Paralysis

Author
Norton, Michael I., Malia Mason, Joe Vandello, Andrew Biga, and Rebecca Dyer

Four studies examine the existence, underlying mechanism, and effectiveness of a new norm endorsed by both Black and White Americans for managing interracial interactions: “racial paralysis,” the tendency to opt out of decisions involving members of different races. While Whites were quite willing to choose which of two White individuals was more likely to be class valedictorian or to have committed a violent crime, they were less likely to make the same choice between a White and Black person (Study 1).

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2010
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El Pais

La bancarrota necesaria

Author
Fernandez-Villaverde, J., L. Garicano, and Tano Santos
El escabroso plan de rescate propuesto para Irlanda es un sinsentido. Intelectualmente erróneo, es inútil en sus objetivos, injusto en su reparto de costes y la semilla de futuros problemas. Y lo que es peor, existe una alternativa mucho más sensata.
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2010
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The New York Times

On Global Warming, Start Small

Author
Usher, Bruce
Climate change is global, as emissions from one country enter the atmosphere and affect every other country. It is created by every form of economic activity, but its effects will not become critical for another generation. Today, it is practically impossible for more than 190 countries to negotiate — and ultimately ratify — an agreement that would affect all facets of their economies in order to deal with a problem so far in the future. But there is an alternative to this top-down approach to climate change: a bottom-up strategy that stands a much better chance of working.
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2010

Reconsidering Choice in the Design of Work: The Persistent Influence of Ethnicity Within a Multinational Organization

Author
Iyengar, Sheena, Sanford DeVoe, and Claudius Hildebrand

Using a cross-national survey of Citibank employees, the authors examine the persistent influence of ethnic background on perceptions of choice and its association with performance, intrinsic motivation, and well-being in the workplace. Among Anglo-Americans, task choice was prominent and associated with benefits for employees, whereas choices made by supervisors were less salient and associated with detriments.

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Working Paper
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2010

Hedging your bets: Uncertainty about continued success reduces people&#39;s desire for high procedural fairness

Author
Brockner, Joel, Batia Wiesenfeld, Phyllis Siegel, and Shu Zhang
A central tenet of organizational justice theory is that people prefer decisions to be made with higher than with lower procedural fairness. The results of five studies unearthed a boundary condition for this general tendency. People who experienced non-contingent success had less of a desire to be treated with higher procedural fairness relative to their counterparts who experienced contingent success.
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