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High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School
Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing - 2019
Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as...
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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2022
Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is a large and selective Chinese high school, where...
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Long-term effects of environmental policies on educational performance: Evidence from China
Khelifa, Siwar; He, Jie - 2023
This paper examines the overall long-term effects of the Two Control Zones policy, implemented by the Chinese government to reduce air pollution, on children's human capital development. Estimates show that exposure to this policy, during the year of birth, is associated, 15 years later, with an...
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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation: Complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
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Trade and Innovation: Matched Worker-Firm-Level Evidence
Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2016
This paper examines the relationship between globalization and innovation. To do so, it draws from data that match the … model. While the literature on trade and innovation has emphasized the role of firms in driving onshore innovation, the main …
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Su, Yaqin; … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
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