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The power of reflection for would-be leaders: Investigating individual work reflection and its impact on leadership in teams
(Sage PublicationsWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-01)
Effects of COVID-19 restrictions on mechanization service providers and mechanization equipment retailers: Insights from phone surveys in Myanmar
(Resources for the FutureWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-02)
Agrifood sector mechanization service providers (MSP) and mechanization equipment retailers (MER) have increasingly become the providers of mechanical technologies for smallholders in developing countries, including Myanmar. ...
The performance effects of creative imitation on original products: Evidence from lab and field experiments
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2023-01)
Research SummaryA market entrant often challenges the incumbent using creative imitation: The entrant creatively combines imitated aspects of the original with its own innovative characteristics to create a distinct offering. ...
Advanced placement course credit and undergraduate student success in gateway science courses
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-02)
Approximately 2 million students take Advanced Placement (AP) examinations annually. However, departmental policies that allow students to replace introductory courses with AP credit greatly vary within and across universities, ...
Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Econofact, 2023-01)
US workers receive unemployment benefits if they lose their job, but not for reduced working hours. In alignment with the benefits incentives, we find that the labor market responded to COVID-19 and related closure-policies ...
The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Advancing Partners & Communities, 2023-03)
Globally 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. One of the major reasons for high maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries is the low proportion of births attended ...
The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...
Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators’ sense-making about the Next Generation Science Standards
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-11)
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a reform effort “for states, by states,” advances ambitious ideals for elementary science teaching, but the fate of these ideals will depend in part on the engagement of state ...
Information effects on lay tradeoffs between national regulatory costs and benefits
(Harvard School of Public HealthWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
A novel stated-preference “macro-risk” approach introduced to estimate the life-prolonging benefits of proposed environmental, health, and safety regulations may answer questions unasked or wrongly answered by conventional ...
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo-related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022-11)
Research SummaryThis study examines how incumbent director reactions to media coverage of the #MeToo movement have impacted the evaluation of prospective corporate directors. We argue that heightened intergroup anxiety ...