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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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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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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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with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (“the ACI countriesâ€), are no strangers to this underlying trend …
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with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (“the ACI countriesâ€), are no strangers to this underlying trend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278164
with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (“the ACI countriesâ€), are no strangers to this underlying trend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278221