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Posted on: September 6, 2007 11:05 AM, by Jonah Lehrer
From Tyler Cowen:
1. In Danish data, if a CEO's child dies, the value of that CEO's company falls by one-fifth in the following two years.2. If a CEO's wife dies, the value of that CEO's company falls by fifteen percent.
3. If a CEO's mother-in-law dies, the value of that CEO's company rises slightly.
The moral is simple: grief is debilitating, or at least distracting. Read the original paper here.
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Comments (1)
Heh. You got blurbed over at Tyler Cowen.
You touch economics, he touches Proust.
Posted by: Ted | September 6, 2007 1:49 PM