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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...
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The Gift of a Lifetime : The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality
Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. In this paper, we explore how … access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke Endowment in the early twentieth …
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