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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …
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Market share, market value and innovation in a panel of British manufacturing firms
Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 66 (1999) 3, pp. 529-554
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Trade induced technical change? : the impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and poductivity
Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 83 (2016) 1, pp. 87-117
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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse
Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013
The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293203
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Is there such thing as middle class values? Class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - 2012
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282205
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Do middle classes bring institutional reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282529
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The unfairness of (poverty) targets
Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, Luis … - 2013
Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries ...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291321
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279274
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Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646310