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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms
Ichniowski, Casey - 2009
Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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Trade and Search : Social Capital, Sogo Shosha, and Spillovers
Rauch, James E. - 1996
A network/search view of international trade in differentiated products is proposed. It is shown that this view can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473227
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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas - 2024
innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the …
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Immediate and Longer-Term Housing Market Effects of a Major U.S. Airport Closure
Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Crews, Jonas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A busy airport's closure has large effects on noise, real estate markets, and neighborhood demographics. Using a unique dataset, we examine the effects of closing Denver's Stapleton Airport on nearby housing markets. We find evidence of immediate anticipatory price effects upon announcement, but...
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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects
Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...
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Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
Ba, Bocar A.; Bayer, Patrick J.; Rim, Nayoung; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the efficiency and equity of alternative allocations. We document that the current bidding process, which grants priority based on seniority, results in the assignment of more...
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An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
Chyn, Eric; Daruich, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model with endogenous location choice and child skill development. Importantly, housing costs as well as...
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Neighborhood Choice After COVID : The Role of Rents, Amenities, and Work-From-Home
Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel; Wong, Maisy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
rankings favor neighborhoods where social and professional network shares are higher by 2.2 percentage points, rents are lower … amenities both before and after the pandemic. Our estimates reveal that MWTP for network shares post COVID is markedly lower … people live, and find that weaker network preferences are most impactful, while heterogeneity by commute and work …
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Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults
Cook, Cody; Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the 'experienced isolation' methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we compare the isolation of students over the age of 16--who we identify based on their time spent at a high school--and...
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Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers
Billings, Stephen B. - 2019
This paper examines how elementary-aged peers affect cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes from adolescence to adulthood. We identify effects by exploiting within-school and within-neighborhood variation in the proportion of peers with an arrested parent. Results indicate exposure to these peers...
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