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Artificial intelligence capital and business innovation

Drydakis, Nick - 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly recognised as a key driver of business innovation, yet its adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) varies considerably. This study examines whether AI Capital, defined as AI-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, is associated...

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From liquor to LPG : spillover effects of alcohol prohibition on clean fuel adoption

Dhamija, Gaurav; Gupta, Sagnik Kumar; Ojha, Manini - 2026

This paper examines whether Bihar's 2016 alcohol prohibition generated spillover effects on household adoption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as a primary cooking fuel. Although clean cooking lies outside the policy's intended scope, prohibition may affect fuel choice by altering household...

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Socioeconomic status and gender gaps in educational outcomes across the life course : new distributional evidence

Nguyen, Ha; Chapman, Bruce James; Le, Huong; Royer, Heather - 2026

This study leverages whole-of-population linked census-administrative data to examine gender gaps in educational outcomes from early primary school through early adulthood in Australia and to assess the contribution of socioeconomic factors to these gaps. We find that females outperform males...

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From the inner citadel to the outside world : Tilgherís hypothesis and the emergence of modern man

Ponthière, Grégory - 2026

According to the Italian philosopher Tilgher (1922), the birth of the bourgeois society during the Pre-Industrial era involved the replacement of the Ancient Man by the Modern Man, and consisted of a reorienta- tion of efforts from spiritual exercises developing the inner self (what Marcus...

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What explains the increase in immigrants' educational attainment in the United States?

Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2026

The educational distribution of U.S. immigrants shifted significantly to the right in recent decades as the share without a high school diploma fell and the share with a bachelor's degree rose. This improvement coincided with a shift in immigrants' origins toward Asia and rising global education...

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Beyond lockdowns : work-from-home, mental health, and the moderating roles of intensity, job control and social support

Bilgrami, Anam - 2026

During and shortly after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns were expressed that working from home (WFH) was creating a 'mental health crisis'. Australia experienced a three-phase 'WFH experiment', with widespread high-intensity WFH imposed by lockdowns in 2020, deepened restrictions...

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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 compulsory education law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas-one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling-using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform increased...

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The wealth of nations : origins of prosperity and seeds of inequality

Galor, Oded - 2026

What ignited humanity's momentous ascent from millennia of stagnation to an era of sustained economic growth? And what are the roots of the vast disparities in the wealth of nations? These enduring mysteries, which have preoccupied scholars across generations, lie at the core of Unified Growth...

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Tax expenditures and redistribution : the case of Portugal

Christl, Michael; Berdeal, Silvia Navarro - 2026

This paper assesses the fiscal and distributional effects of personal income tax expenditures in Portugal using EUROMOD and 2022 EU-SILC microdata. We compare the 2023 tax-benefit system with a counterfactual scenario in which tax expenditures are removed to estimate first-round impacts. We find...

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The legacy of China’s one-child policy on human capital : how being raised by an only child affects cognitive and noncognitive skill development

Feng, Shuaizhang; Gan, Yu; Han, Yujie; Kautz, Tim - 2026

China's One-Child Policy (OCP) restricted most couples to a single birth, leading to a rapid increase in the prevalence of only children. Using longitudinal data and a regression discontinuity design around the policy's start, we estimate the effects on grandchildren's human capital. We find...

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