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Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preference Elicitation in Matching Markets Via Interviews: A Study of Offline Benchmarks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical (especially
Goldberg, Paul   +2 more
core  

Market Perceptions of ESG Reputational Risk in the US Pharmaceutical Industry

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Negative ESG‐related reputational events generate significant corporate risks, particularly within sensitive sectors such as the pharmaceutical industry. Using novel reputational data, this research investigates investor perceptions of the consequences of experienced ESG breaches among US pharmaceutical firms.
Erdinc Akyildirim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking Climate and Environmental Attention: A News‐Based Composite Index

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the Climate and Environmental Attention Index, a composite indicator that tracks media attention to climate and environmental issues. Based on the Semantic Brand Score, the proposed index extracts significant signals from unstructured text, going beyond traditional measures of word frequency and sentiment.
Gianna Figà‐Talamanca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric Information With Multiple Risks: The Case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We extend the Rothshild and Stiglitz (1976) model to two sources of risk –inpatient and outpatient risk– to better proxy real‐world health insurance markets. We uncover an interesting theoretical possibility: Take individuals A and B, who are low risks in, say, the inpatient dimension but A is riskier in the outpatient dimension.
Dolores de la Mata   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “Zhang Xuefeng Effect”: Information Intervention and the College Admission Problem in China

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Information regarding the quality of colleges and labor‐market prospects of majors plays an important role in parents' and students' school‐choice decisions, particularly when these decisions are crucially relevant to the students' long‐run career choices and life earnings.
Yutong Huo, Yun Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasts or Carryover? Demands–Capabilities Fit and Task‐Level Intrinsic Motivation Across the Workday

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the course of a workday, employees attend to various tasks whose challenge might be equal to, higher than, or lower than employees' present level of capabilities. Moreover, employees encounter these tasks sequentially throughout the day with different levels of prior motivation. Investigating carryover effects in motivation from one task to
Sherry (Qiang) Fu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voting over economic plans [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
We review and provide motivation for a one-sector model of economic growth in which decisions about capital accumulation are made by a political process.
Boylan, Richard T., McKelvey, Richard D.
core  

Is It a Matter of Visibility Over Viability? CEO Narcissism and the Strategic Trade‐Off in Corporate Diversification

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how CEO narcissism shapes corporate diversification strategies, addressing gaps in upper echelon and agency theories. Using a sample of 388 CEOs across 319 firms, we find that narcissistic CEOs drive higher levels of overall corporate diversification but exhibit a strategic trade‐off: they strongly favor unrelated ...
Naima Lassoued, Imen Khanchel
wiley   +1 more source

Patient‐Reported Feedback Suggests an Alternative Sweet Spot for Deep Brain Stimulation Programming in Essential Tremor

open access: yesMovement Disorders, EarlyView.
(1) To sample subjective patient rating using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), random stimulation parameters were presented to the study subjects. (2) Next, corresponding volumes of tissue activated (VTA) were generated and paired with VAS values.
Sophia Peschke   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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