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Recent developments in the economics of science and innovation

Link, Albert N. - 2014

This volume presents the most important contributions of the last decade in the fields of science and innovation … economic activity, and later chapters document the importance of science as an input to technology and innovation. This …, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern (eds), Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume I, Chapter 7, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 221 …

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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?

Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001

By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...

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Schooling and Parental Death

Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003

Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...

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Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya

Miguel, Edward - EconWPA - 2001

The impact of ethnic diversity on the provision of local public goods and collective action in Africa remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, this paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local primary school funding in rural western Kenya. The econometric...

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Child Labor and Fertility

Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003

This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents, who raise and educate children for both financial and...

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