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This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.
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In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...
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Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …
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This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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prerequisite for innovation and entrepreneurship. This is done by putting the spotlight on the role that formal and informal … institutions often act as impediments to entrepreneurship and innovation. We argue that a common yet underappreciated source of …
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It is imperative that the economies of the European Union become more entrepreneurial to promote innovation and … bankruptcy and insolvency; (vii) R&D, commercialization and knowledge spillovers; (viii) human capital investments; and (ix … to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
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function which, until recently, has been an underappreciated and poorly understood source of innovation and institutional …
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innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an … innovation bloc of this kind, a system of innovation that evolves and within which activity takes place through time. The … innovation bloc consists of five pools of economic skills from which people are drawn or recruited to form part of a …
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Many countries have implemented quasi-markets to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation in welfare service provision … extensive use of quasi-markets. Based on the Swedish experience, we contend that quasi-markets can unlock their innovation … innovation in quasi-market contexts. Such markets demand a set of supporting institutions of an epistemic nature. These …
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