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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 ...
Sport tickets pricing strategy with home team’s crowd effect
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023-03)
This paper investigates the impact of the crowd effect and financing constraints on pricing strategy by constructing an intertemporal model and introducing the crowd effect into a monopolistic home team’s decision-making ...
Preserving the Non-Physical: Essence and Value Perceptions
(2022)
The value of possessions is not always immediately apparent, making them something greater than the sum of their physical parts. People share the pervasive belief that things carry an essence which contributes to their ...
Individual learning as a driver of changes in community vulnerability under repeated hurricanes and changing climate
(Oxford UniversityWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-04)
The risks from singular natural hazards such as a hurricane have been extensively investigated in the literature. However, little is understood about how individual and collective responses to repeated hazards change ...