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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948069
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960171
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How Does Hedge Fund Activism Reshape Corporate Innovation?
Brav, Alon - 2016
This paper studies how hedge fund activism reshapes corporate innovation. Firms targeted by hedge fund activists … experience an improvement in innovation efficiency during the five-year period following the intervention. Despite a tightening … in R&D expenditures, target firms experience increases in innovation output, measured by both patent counts and citations …
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Better, Faster, Stronger : Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization
Coelli, Federica - 2016
This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in over 60 … enables us to establish the causal impact of trade policy on innovation. Our results suggest that trade liberalization has … economically significant effects on innovation and, ultimately, on technical change and growth. According to our estimates, about 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982938
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What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?
Mountford, Andrew - 2010
We propose and apply a new approach for analyzing the effects of fiscal policy using vector autoregressions. Specifically, we use sign restrictions to identify a government revenue shock as well as a government spending shock, while controlling for a generic business cycle shock and a monetary...
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Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth
Weil, David N. - 2010
I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to health, which I combine with cross-country and historical...
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Do Currency Markets Absorb News Quickly?
Evans, Martin D.D. - 2010
This paper addresses whether macro news arrivals affect currency markets over time. The null from macro exchange-rate theory is that they do not: macro news is impounded in ex-change rates instantaneously. We test this by examining the effects of news on subsequent trades by end-user...
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A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap
Sloane, Carolyn - 2019
In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences in the mapping between undergraduate major and...
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
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