paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development-innovation and imitation …-are distinguished from one another by identifying the dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level. Specific …

prices, market shares, and profits. Our demand estimation results show large differences in brand loyalty, and switching …

are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …

the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …

We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …