Employee absenteeism is a problem for companies everywhere. When employees are away from the office, for good reasons or not, the cost has been measured at somewhere around 4 percent of the world’s ...

In this study, the authors investigate the relationships among gender, math skills, motivation, and study success in economics and econometrics. They find that female students have stronger intrinsic ...

For students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, motivation to persist academically depends on their beliefs about social mobility Studies build on psychological theories of identity and motivation ...

Economic competition can often usefully be compared to sports. As many jaded sports fans know, economics plays a chief role in the decisions made by their favorite teams and athletes. But sports can ...

Physicians who consistently refer patients to themselves or members of their own specialty for imaging studies, rather than to radiologists, are more likely to order such studies for a variety of ...