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Damian Clarke: Reducing maternal mortality through education | Human capital and growth

Are more educated women more able to access information relating to maternal health care decisions? Damian Clarke from University of Chile discusses the linkage between the years of education and mate...

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TEDxYale - Keith Chen - The Impact of Language on Economic Behavior

Keith Chen - The Impact of Language on Economic Behavior. Keith Chen is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management. His research blurs traditional boundaries in both subject ...

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Pascaline Dupas: Do health subsidies help? | Human capital and growth

Pascaline Dupas of Stanford University looks at what prevent households from investing in health products that we know can save lives. Often the reason is simply poverty, however the international com...

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Zlata Tanović: Do health tests bias their own results? | Human capital and growth

Zlata Tanović of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam discusses the challenges of collecting health data. The act of carrying out health surveys may in fact change the behavior of those being studied....

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Jeffrey Nugent: Labour market reforms, growth, and inequality | Human capital and growth

The more rigid the labour regulations, the harder it is to the firms to adjust to shocks. However, at the same time the regulations protect workers from the shocks. In this video Jeffrey Nugent, from ...

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Behavioral Economics: How Do People Evaluate Risk in Everyday Situations?

Behavioral Economics: How Do People Evaluate Risk in Everyday Situations? - Professor Robin Hogarth uses a novel new methodology to demonstrate that even relatively simple measures of mood state can h...

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Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions? The author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show...

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