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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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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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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?
Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; Stapp, Alec - 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
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Regulation and macroeconomic performance
Loayza, Norman - 2005
"Regulation is purportedly enacted to serve specific social purposes. In reality, however, it follows a more complex political economy process, where legitimate social goals are mixed with the objectives of particular interest groups. Whatever its justification and objectives, regulation can...
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The initial and potential impact of preferential access to the U.S. market under the African growth and opportunity act
Brenton, Paul - 2004
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Direct support to private firms : evidence on effectiveness
Batra, Geeta - 2003
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