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This paper examines the output contributions of capital and labor deployed in information systems (IS) at the firm level during the period 1988-91 throughout the business sector, using two different sources of data on these inputs. Our production function estimates suggest that there are...
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Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...
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Supporters of touch-screen voting claim it is a highly reliable voting technology, while a growing number of critics argue that paperless electronic voting systems are vulnerable to fraud. In this paper we use county-level data on voting technologies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections...
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differences in the probability of arrest or incarceration conditional on crime. We estimate that the externality of education is … about 14-26% of the private return to schooling, suggesting that a significant part of the social return to education comes …
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This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …
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The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …
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This paper develops a theoretical model that relates changes in educational inequality to the combined effects of innovations that have increased the relative demand for more educated labor and innovations that have increased ability premiums. Under the assumption that in the long run individual...
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This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …
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In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …
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. I find that adoptive parents' education and income have a modest impact on child test scores but a large impact on …
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