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Do Twitter's Science Stars Get a Citation Premium?
Lessmann, Christian; Önder, Ali Sina - 2023
report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global … difference-in-differences analysis for annual incoming citations of the two groups. We find that the Twitter star status added … about 1.07 extra citations following the breakout of COVID-19 per year per article, corresponding to about 70% of the …
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Taxing human capital efficiently: the double dividend of taxing non-qualified labour more heavily than qualified labour
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2006
Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and nonqualified labour it is shown to be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for education. If the return from education is isoelastic and if the choice is between (i) subsidizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264005
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2007
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264259
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316661
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Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment affected women’s emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss...
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Identity and entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...
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Surfing alone? The Internet and social capital: evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...
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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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