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theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently. Starting in the late … 1990s, there has been a large number of studies in economics applying and extending RD methods. In this paper we review …
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theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently. Starting in the late … 1990s, there has been a large number of studies in economics applying and extending RD methods. In this paper we review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465622
publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …
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In recent years, comparative economics experienced a revival, with a new focus on comparing capitalist economies. The …
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When asked to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial, Paul Samuelson famously replied: 'Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage'. Truth, however, in Samuelson's reply refers to the fact that Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is mathematically...
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We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …
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This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market outcomes by exploiting a change in enrollment requirements in Italian STEM majors. University-level scientific education had two direct effects on the development of patents by students who had acquired a...
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Prior research has shown that immigrants make important contributions to US innovation and are more likely than natives to become entrepreneurs. However, there is little evidence on how foreign and native high-skilled workers differ prior to entering the workforce. Moreover, little attention has...
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the American Mathematics Competition. A clear gender gap is already present by 9th grade and the gender gap widens over …
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This paper assesses whether delays in obtaining permanent residency status can explain recent declines in the share of Chinese and Indian PhD graduates from US STEM programs who remain in the US after their studies. We find that newly-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and...
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