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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016
Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...
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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774896
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Strengthening State Capacity : Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
Aneja, Abhay; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
service delivery and innovation in over 2,800 cities between 1875-1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil … effective postal service contributed to innovation and growth during the Gilded Age …
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …
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Monetary Policy and Innovation
Ma, Yueran; Zimmermann, Kaspar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document that monetary policy has a substantial impact on innovation activities. After a tightening shock of 100 …-based aggregate innovation index, declines by up to 9 percent in the following 2 to 4 years. Based on previous estimates of the … sensitivity of output to innovation activities, these magnitudes imply that output could be 1 percent lower after another 5 years …
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Science, Philanthropy, and American Leadership
Conn, Robert W.; Cowhey, Peter F.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many … innovative than government or business funding alone would yield. It also enables significant innovation in the development of …
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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in …
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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?
D'Souza, Arielle; Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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Health at older ages : the causes and consequences of declining disability among the elderly
Cutler, David M. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003681819
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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