This thesis aims to contribute to the economics of management and productivity. We explore some of the important linkages between managers, technology, earnings, and productivity in the United Kingdom. First, we investigate the role of managers in productivity in the context of skill-biased techn...
In the Regression Discontinuity (RD) design, discontinuities in the density function of the running variable may harm identification and bias estimations as in the manipulation and heaping cases. This first paper proposes a new robust approach that consistently estimates the Average Treatment Eff...
Energy has no place in economic theory despite that (i) goods are material rearrangements and (ii) humans can only rearrange matter with energy transfers. These principles can be implemented by modifying conventional neoclassical consumer and producer problems. The point of departure is the state...
The 2030 global development agenda represents a renewed commitment to gender equality and an explicit call for business contribution. Even though during the last 15 years the gender gap has narrowed, women continue to lag behind men in the economic opportunities available to them. Feminist econom...
This dissertation is composed by four chapters studying the accumulation of human capital at different stages of the life cycle. Each chapter concludes with policy recommendations aiming to improve the distribution of educational opportunities, from preschool to adult life.
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In contrast to existing studies that focus mainly on the extent to which online reviews influence consumers' decision- making processes, this study responds to a recent call for more comprehensive consumer research on online reviews from the reviewers' perspective. This research therefore investi...
