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Education and Invention
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...
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Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model
Jun, Bogang; Hwang, Won-Sik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the...
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Does Education Empower Women? Evidence from Indonesia
Samarakoon, Sujani; Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the number of live births, increases contraceptive use, and...
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier
Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based … that there exists a constant level of skilled and unskilled human capital in the imitation-only and innovation-only regimes …. In the imitation-innovation regime stock of skilled human capital rises whereas that of unskilled human capital falls in …
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Regional Analysis of Out-of-School Children in Romania
Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The current study consists of a regional analysis of children participation in education in Romania. From an administrative point of view, the country is organized in 41 counties and Bucharest city. The regional level emerged in the public policymaking only after 1989, when escaping a...
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Are the Children of Uneducated Farmers Doubly Doomed? Farm, Nonfarm and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural China
Emran, M. Shahe; Sun, Yan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper relaxes the single factor model of intergenerational educational mobility standard in the literature, and develops a research design to study the effects of parents' education and occupation on children's schooling. We use survey data from rural China that cover three generations and...
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A theory of family education incentives and inequality
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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Segregation in Education and Labour Market Discrimination: The Role of Peer Beliefs
Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In this paper we examine the long term effects of socialization and segregation in schools, on labour market outcomes. We incorporate a model of “informational” peer influence by which beliefs of pupils are affected by exposure to other pupils’ posterior beliefs. Specifically, we focus on...
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