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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in “high” and “low” stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a...
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Using data covering a single cohort’s first 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...
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This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...
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implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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located. The main results indicate that firms with a larger share of women in the knowledge creation and innovation process …This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation …
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Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …
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innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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