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In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control...
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investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … academic knowledge is investigated by quantifying the effect of the time period which elapses after the founder has left …
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knowledge acquired through formal education and professional experience and usually coincides with a higher personal wealth … distinguish between different types of entry strategies. On the one hand, we look at entry strategies based on innovation. We … measure innovation by a variable which indicates if a firm carries out continuous R&D. On the other hand, entry is classified …
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For academic spin-offs I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of...
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In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children's educational and health outcomes in eleven sub-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions. We also examine the impacts of various family...
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We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
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innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs …This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … estimating various knowledge production functions suggest an inverse u-shaped relationship. The exchange of R&D personnel fosters …
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This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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