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In this paper a novel survey dataset allows us to use a direct measure for credit constraints as well as a direct measure for the innovative activity of a firm to identify the effects of credit constraints on the innovation behaviour of firms. Furthermore, the design of the survey questions and...
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This paper analyzes tax competition when welfare maximizing jurisdictions levy source-based corporate taxes and multinational enterprises choose tax-efficient capital-to-debt ratios. Under separate accounting, multinationals shift debt from low-tax to high-tax countries. The Nash equilibrium of...
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In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...
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The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …
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A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions—small group instruction given parallel to …
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university participation has been increasing. We use the Linear Probability and Logit models to investigate the determinants of … attending university and explore the reasons for the increasing gender imbalance. We find that, in gender-specific equations … explaining the rising level of the university participation rate for women and men. The important variables include a time trend …
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We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in...
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We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town, village, and manor). We find that Jews live predominantly...
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The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...
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. "Harvard University" is the best performing institution (in all years) followed by many other institutions from Northern …
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