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Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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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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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

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Do Nations Combine O-Rings with Cobb-Douglas? Evidence from agriculture, equipment production, and the informal sector

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...

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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...

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On the spatial diffusion of knowledge by universities located in small and medium sized towns

Rego, Conceição; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

a higher level of education and R&D. The relationship between the acquisition of knowledge and institutional education … innovation, enterprise spirit and management capacity. Given that higher education institutions, in general, and universities, in … particular, are obviously crucial in the process of knowledge increase, it becomes important to analyse how can these …

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Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set

Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...

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Positive self-image over time

Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper incorporates egocentric comparisons into a human capital accumulation model and studies the evolution of positive self image over time. The paper shows that the process of human capital accumulation together with egocentric comparisons imply that positive self image of a cohort is...

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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...

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