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This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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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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text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the …
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theoretical predictions. Observables such as education, income, gender and home country as well as unobservables such as ability …
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association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …
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, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an …
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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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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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
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The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …
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