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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project

Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - CESifo - 2001

This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...

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Technological Change, Entry and Stock Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Transition in a Monopolistic Economy

Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw D. - CESifo - 2002

valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …

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Contingent Trade Policy and Economic Efficiency

McCalman, Phillip; Stähler, Frank; Willmann, Gerald - CESifo - 2011

This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market … contingent trade policy on efficiency grounds. Contingent trade policy that seeks to maximize global welfare can avoid the …

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...

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Household Formation and Markets

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans; Konishi, Hideo - CESifo - 2013

We consider competitive markets for multiple commodities with endogenous formation of one- or two-person households. Within each two-person household, externalities from the partner’s commodity consumption and unpriced actions are allowed. Each individual has two types of traits: observable...

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Incentives to Work and Performance in the Public Sector

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; … - CESifo - 2015

productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

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Efficiency Gains by Modifying GMM Estimation in Linear Models under Heteroskedasticity

Kiviet, Jan Frederik; Feng, Qu - CESifo - 2014

(MGMM), exploiting straight-forward modifications of the instruments, can achieve substantial efficiency gains and bias …

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