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      • 05 Jan 2021
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      Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

      For child and family social workers, coping with the hardships of children and parents is part of the job. But that can cause a lot of stress. Is it possible for financially constrained organizations to improve social workers’ well-being using non-cash rewards, recognition, and other strategies from behavioral science? Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans describes the experience of Chief Executive Michael Sanders’ at the UK’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as he led a research program aimed at improving the morale of social workers in her case, “The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 15 Oct 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

      by Rachel Layne

      Wage growth in IT jobs has moderated following the dot-com boom, according to new research by Ruiqing Sam Cao and Shane Greenstein. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 09 Oct 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Where the Cloud Rests: The Economic Geography of Data Centers

      by Shane Greenstein and Tommy Pan Fang

      This study quantifies how data center managers make a trade-off between the setup and operational costs of running a facility and capturing local demand.

      • 14 Sep 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

      by Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein

      The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.

      • 28 Jan 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure

      by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song

      Anchor stores are the key tenants in a mall, occupying most of the gross leasable area and generating much of the foot traffic. This research provides a framework to understand why new and traditional anchor stores join a shopping mall and how their decisions affect mall configuration.

      • 21 Jan 2020
      • Cold Call Podcast

      China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the US

      Re: Willy C. Shih

      Not many Chinese companies open manufacturing facilities in the US, but automotive glass maker Fuyao is considering just that. In a recent case study, Willy Shih examines factors that go into deciding where companies should locate production centers. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 10 Jan 2019
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?

      Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport

      How deeply does the culture of a startup matter? Can it be shaped? Professor Jeffrey Rayport discusses WeWork cofounder Miguel McKelvey’s innovative role in building a company culture to support rapid growth. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 05 Mar 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

      by Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca

      This study finds that data from digital platforms (in this case, Yelp) can help forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying and provide new ways to measure business landscape changes that accompany demographic changes.

      • 20 Feb 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of Market Structure and Its Effect on Sales

      by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song

      In spite of the recent surge in e-commerce, brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. The construction of mass-scale shopping malls has also experienced tremendous growth in newly industrialized countries such as China. This research provides a rigorous, yet practical, framework to understand and evaluate why retail stores join a shopping mall and how their decisions affect mall revenue. The model can be extended and applied to a number of settings where a decision maker must choose among alternative sites to construct a market, for example, for transportation hubs such as airports or train stations.

      • 29 Aug 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

      by Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen

      Understanding the location interdependence of multinational firms and how they agglomerate with one another is critical to designing and improving economic policies. These authors’ analysis, using a worldwide plant-level dataset and a novel index of agglomeration, yields a number of insights into the economic geography of multinational production. In addition to market access and comparative advantage motives, multinationals' location choices are significantly affected by agglomeration economies including not only vertical production linkages but also technology diffusion and capital-market externalities.

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