infonet-economy

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects framework to show how...

Spitalräte sind die Verwaltungsräte der Spitäler. Bis anhin haben sie mehrheitlich das Dasein grauer Eminenzen geführt. Unter dem Druck der neuen wettbewerbsorientierten Spitalfianzierung, Versicherer, Patientenorganisationen und nicht zuletzt der Medien geraten sie aber immer mehr ins Rampenlicht der Öffentlichkeit. Zwei aktuelle Ereignisse seien hier kurz erwähnt, welche die...

What kind of managerial experiences best prepare executives for a corporate center role? For today's large, multidivisional corporations, this question is fundamental. Most firms assume that experience with managing a profit-oriented unit in one or more of the firm's core businesses is vital for success in a corporate center role. This assumption leads many large firms to...

Identification in most sample selection models depends on the independence of the regressors and the error terms conditional on the selection probability. All quantile and mean functions are parallel in these models; this implies that quantile estimators cannot reveal any - per assumption non-existing - heterogeneity. Quantile estimators are nevertheless useful for testing the...

At the Benedictine University of Saint Anselmo in Rome, a premiere took place in September 2013: 35 abbesses and abbots, priors and prioresses, cellerars, and other Benedictine nuns and monks from all continents gathered to grapple with questions about the management of monasteries during the course "Leadership and the Rule of St. Benedict," which was conducted in...

Als Monopolistin im Übertragungsnetzbereich nimmt die nationale Netzgesellschaft eine Schlüsselrolle in der Stromversorgung ein. So hat sie u.a. die Kontrolle über die Stromflüsse im Netz – einer Infrastruktur, auf die alle Marktteilnehmer angewiesen sind. Wegen dieser herausragenden Stellung stehen Übertragungsnetzbetreiber regelmässig auch im Fokus scharfer regulatorischer...