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Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the...

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Bottom-up vs. top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property

Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus - 2001

What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We …

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Demand vs. supply driven innovations: US and Swedish experiences in academic entrepreneurship

Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2001

Measured by per-capita publication measures, Sweden is an academic powerhouse. Hence, its inability to commercialize on these accomplishments is a puzzle. This paper attributes this failure to the top-down nature of Swedish policies aimed at commercializing these innovations as well as an...

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Designing efficient institutions for science-based entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000

The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Complex approaches for education in Brazil

Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016

Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are phenomena resulting from interactions between the heterogeneous agents that compose such systems. Given the complex nature of education systems, new approaches seem relevant,...

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Migration, remittances and educational outcomes: The case of Haiti

Bredl, Sebastian - 2009

Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly...

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The legacy of Covid-19 in education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international literature...

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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - 2007

Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als „Ich-AG“ bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von...

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Service-sector competition, innovation and R&D

Tinqvall, Patrik Gustavsson; Karpaty, Patrik - 2008

The central prediction of the Aghion et al. (2005) model is an inverted U-shaped relation between innovation and …-sector firms. However, non-exporting service firms deviate from the overall pattern. A more detailed breakdown of innovation … capacity to handle innovation projects internally and as competition increases, so does the payoff of an edge to competitors. …

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