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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital - Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014
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 individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …
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Does innovation cause exports? : Evidence from exogenous innovation impulses and obstacles using German micro data ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, Jan. 200...
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …
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