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- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights. How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross Section of Returns Authors:Malcolm Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
with social media information. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53102 forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products By: Egan, Mark Abstract—I study how brokers distort View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
1987 the network launched MTV Europe and began to set up other international satellites. Currently, the music channel reaches more than 294 million households on every continent except Antarctica - including unexpected places such as... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which invested in early ventures that are now household names, like Fawry, cofounded by Magda Habib. "I'd always heard about Magda and how she... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
complain about labor shortages. Immigrants held low-paying occupations then and now. These occupations include construction, household services, and agriculture. This allowed native-born individuals to climb the “quality ladder of jobs.”... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
a problem.” Koss said Springbank is launching a State of Care Report in partnership with Pivotal Ventures to assess the care market and its future growth, while also looking at household management and aging-in-place trends. “It’s a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
sequencing moves on you. Most parents quickly wise up to the household version of this gambit: To get Dad to say "yes," Junior will claim that "Mom said it was OK," then scurry to tell Mom that Dad has given the green... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
show with this very well-known portrait by Benoist that came to them from the Louvre. There had been some recent scholarship that showed that the artist had in fact indicated in the household journals of her family that she had named two... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
been an academic all my life. We share household responsibilities to avoid the common trap of the female partner being saddled with what Arlie Hochschild calls “The Second Shift.” For instance, I do most of the cooking, and she manages... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
in household income? At the end of the day, did we reduce poverty? "We measure quantified objectives beforehand, monitor them during implementation, and evaluate them afterward," Bloom continues. "It's all very public, very explicit, and... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
of all Black engineers attended an HBCU. There's 101 HBCUs today, and there's 300,000 students attending HBCUs, 70 percent of those students receive Pell Grants, which is for people who come from households with $25,000 or less of annual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
PublicationsRenewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:Istanbul: Is Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, 2010, Turkish ed. Abstract Unilever's brands can now be found in one out of every two households in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
cross-country analysis for the claim that OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to national employment and household consumption and expenditure surveys from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne