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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - CESifo - 2013

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact...

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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014

We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first]year...

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Innovation Strategies in a Competitive Dynamic Setting

Lukach, Ruslan; Plasmans, Joseph; Kort, Peter M. - CESifo - 2005

This paper presents a dynamic model of a competitive R&D and production duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers. Two … asymmetric firms operate for a limited period of time and dispose their knowledge capital in the end. Both firms and the social … planner prefer the R&D-cooperative strategy over the competitive one regardless of the intensity of knowledge spillovers …

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R&D and Production Behavior of Asymmetric Duopoly Subject to Knowledge Spillovers

Plasmans, Joseph - CESifo - 2000

We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model …

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Growth Effects of non Proprietary Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2002

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - CESifo - 2014

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

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