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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis,...
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
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Employment effects of different innovation activities microecomometric evidence
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002368233
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Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft : Hintergrundbericht zur Innovationserhebung 2001
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert Helmut; Peters, Bettina; … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …
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