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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...
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We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …
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This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy … policy a net vote winner. This paper empirically demonstrates the importance of political feasibility in the design of public …
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effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …
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This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
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’s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms’ innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager’s education that has a positive and …Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic …
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We present new data documenting medieval Europe's Commercial Revolution using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...
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Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations. We find that employees in...
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This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836716