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Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor - individual entrepreneurs - plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

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Migration and Networks: Does Education Matter more than Gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - CESifo - 2010

This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both dimensions, we are able to analyze the respective impact of...

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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - CESifo - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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