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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe
Boca, Daniela Del; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022
The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
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Italy and the industrial revolution : evidence from stable employment in rural areas
Rota, Mauro; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2020
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Malthus to Solow
Hansen, Gary D. - 1998
A unified growth theory is developed that accounts for the roughly constant living standards displayed by world economies prior to 1800 as well as the growing living standards exhibited by modern industrial economies. Our theory also explains the industrial revolution, which is the transition...
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The Growing Dependence of Britain on Trade during the Industrial Revolution
Clark, Gregory - 2014
Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which Britain trades with North America and the rest of the world,...
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …
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Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe : changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019
Bauluz, Luis; Bukowski, Paweł; Fransham, Mark; Lee, Annie - 2023
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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2017
Europe. If instead we assume that the European Union imposes the same restrictions on U.K. FDI, then E.U. firms invest more …
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The primary cause of European inflation in 1500-1700 : precious metals or population? : the English evidence
Mélitz, Jacques; Edo, Anthony - 2019
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century : A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height
Fogel, Robert W. - 1982
This paper is a progress report on the usefulness of data on physical height for the analysis of long-ten changes in the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering the U.S. and several other nations over the years from...
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