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Effects of Childhood Cognitive and Behavioral Disabilities on Adult Economic Outcomes

Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Developmental disabilities are not rare among U.S. children and rates have been increasing in recent decades. The increases have been driven by cognitive and behavioral disorders. While some studies have investigated the effects of specific childhood conditions, particularly ADHD, on adult...

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Toward an Understanding of the Returns to Cognitive Skills Across Cohorts

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Luo, Sai; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Recent research concludes that wage returns to cognitive skills have declined in the U.S. We reassess this finding. Using decomposition methods, we document the pivotal role played by dynamic shifts in the distributions of pre-labor market cognitive skills. Our findings show these shifts explain...

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Cognitive Decline and Dynamic Selection

Darden, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality and sample attrition. I study this dynamic selection...

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries …, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on …-ranging positive consequences, including a rise in serial entrepreneurship, cross-sector spillovers, innovation, and broader measures …

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