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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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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital

Brown, Christina L.; Kaur, Supreet; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Schooling may build human capital not only by teaching academic skills, but by expanding the capacity for cognition itself. We focus specifically on cognitive endurance: the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over a continuous stretch of time. As motivation, we document that globally...

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Do Reforms Aimed at Reducing Time to Graduation Work? Evidence from the Italian Higher Education System

Malacrino, Davide; Nocito, Samuel; Saggio, Raffaele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines the impact of a reform aimed at expediting graduation times in Italian universities by reducing the number of exams students must pass to obtain a fixed number of credits. Using event-study estimates that leverage the reform's staggered implementation, we find that this...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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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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Trust, Intangible Assets, and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; Mairesse, Jacques; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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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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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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