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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents

Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...

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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Family unification, siblings, and skills

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

knowledge about the complex interactions of admission categories, human capital investment, and earnings growth. …

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Solar cycles and time allocation of children and adolescents

Ha Trong Nguyen; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily solar cycles. Utilizing a dataset of over 50,000 time-use diaries from two Australian cohorts spanning 16 years and employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a...

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Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development

Ha Trong Nguyen; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. This paper exploits exogenous...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...

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The effects of sleep duration on child health and development

Ha Trong Nguyen; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2022

This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development in children and adolescents. Using over 50 thousand time use diaries from two cohorts of Australian children spanning over 16 years, we first document that children sleep...

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Whither the evolution of the contemporary social fabric? : new technologies and old socio-economic trends

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

the processes of innovation and diffusion of what we could call "intelligent automation" are likely to change, or more … the ensuing impact on jobs, division of labour, distribution of knowledge, power, and control. Finally, we address some …

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The future of industrial policies in the new millennium : toward a knowledge-centered development agenda

Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: Industrial policy and development : the political …, (pp. 541-560). 2009

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Technological catching-up, sales dynamics and employment growth : evidence from China's manufacturing firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018

' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … innovation and patenting activities on employment growth appear to be negligible. …

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