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Are Conditional Cash Transfers Effective in Urban Areas? Evidence from Mexico

Behrman, Jere R.; Gallardo-Garcia, Jorge; Parker, Susan W. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2011

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide as a new form of social assistance for the poor. Previous evaluations of CCT programs focus mainly on rural settings, and little is known about their effects in urban areas. This paper studies the short-term (one and two-year)...

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The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School and Racial Test Score Gaps

Todd, Petra E.; Wolpin, Kenneth I. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004

This paper studies the determinants of children’s scores on tests of cognitive achievement in math and reading. Using rich longitudinal data on test scores, home environments, and schools, we implement alternative specifications for the production function for achievement and test their...

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2015

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on”superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...

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Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010

framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …

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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth

Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013

This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...

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Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014

innovations - innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on … the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted …. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity …

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Transition to Clean Technology

Kerr, William; Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, … - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

innovation. in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though …

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Transition to Clean Technology

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Kerr, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014

innovation - in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though …

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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013

innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …

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Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas

Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp; Greenwood, Jeremy - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013

An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...

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