Search Results - subject:"1993 - 1997"

Gender quotas and the quality of politicians

Baltrunaite, Audinga (contributor) - 2012

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during the period...

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The impact of family income on child achievement : evidence from the earned income tax credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...

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Japan's intangible capital and valuation of corporations in a neoclassical framework

Arato, Hiroki; Yamada, Katsunori - 2010

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The impact of family income on child achievement : evidence from the earned income tax Credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2010

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Comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers

Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomaala, Juha - 2009

investigation is based on micro-level panel data constructed by Statistics Finland (Employment Statistics) for the period 1993−1997 …-employed during the whole period 1993−1997). Our variables are described in Table 1. 4 Table 1 Descriptive statistics … investigation is based on micro-level panel data constructed by Statistics Finland (Employment Statistics) for the period 1993−1997 …

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Comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers

Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2008

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Comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers

Jordahl, Henrik (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2008

In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...

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Inventor moral hazard in university licensing : the role of contracts

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Thursby, Jerry G.; Thursby, Marie - 2008

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When distance disappears : inventors, education, and the locus of knowledge spillovers

Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam - In: The review of economics and statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 449-463

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The duality of knowledge networks : the impact of production and usage networks on academic citations

Nerkar, Atul; Lahiri, Nandini - In: Understanding the relationship between networks and …, (pp. 165-197). 2013

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