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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Sorting, Education and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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 analyses the efficiency and welfare …

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...

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De Jure and de Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N; van Rens, Thijs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return to education) have been hard to reconcile with micro … human capital is negatively related to its return, and a higher education level compresses wage differentials. We use cross … that the private return falls by 1.5 percentage points when the average education level increases by a year, which is …

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Barriers to innovation among Spanish manufacturing SMEs

Madrid-Guijarro, Antonia; Garcia Pérez de Lema, Domingo; … - In: Journal of small business management : JSBM ; a joint … 47 (2009) 4, pp. 465-488

that examined barriers to firm innovation among a sample of 194 managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in … supporting and ecouraging the innovation among SMEs in Spain. Government policies that envourage and support innovation among all …

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Technological collaboration : bridging the innovation gap between small and large firms

Nieto, María Jesus; Santamaría Sánchez, Lluís - In: Journal of small business management : JSBM ; a joint … 48 (2010) 1, pp. 44-69

This paper analyzes how technological collaboration acts as an input to the innovation process and allows small and … Spanish manufacturing firms, the results show that though technological collaboration is a useful mechanism for firms of all … sizes to improve innovativeness, it is a critical factor for the smallest firms. The impact of this collaboration varies …

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Comparing innovation capability of small and medium-sized enterprises : examining the effects of organizational culture and empowerment

C̜akar, Nigar Demircan; Ertürk, Alper - In: Journal of small business management : JSBM ; a joint … 48 (2010) 3, pp. 325-359

positively related to innovation capability for both small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on both the individual and firm … managerial practices (e.g. empowerment) to promote innovation capability of SMEs. …

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