Do Educated Leaders Matter?

What Do Leaders Know?

The ability of a society to make the right decisions on relevant matters relies on its capability to properly aggregate the noisy information spread across the individuals of which it is made. In this paper, we study the information aggregation performance of a stylized model of a society, whose most influential individuals—the leaders—are highly connected among themselves and uninformed. Agent...

Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter

Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one spe...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Do Workers\' Remittances Matter for the Egyptian Economy?

Workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. Although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, Egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. Empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ ...

How Do Leaders Lead? Through Social Influence