mathematical literacy and curriculum-based knowledge. The findings indicate that central exit exams only improve curriculum …-based knowledge but do not affect mathematical literacy. Moreover, teachers in German states with central exit examinations are more …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography … endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …

in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan … of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and … sources of overestimated aggregate border effects of knowledge spillovers. While self-citations are only 11% of total …

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology …

considering knowledge diffusion on a Salop (1979) circle. Completing markets by pricing knowledge allows us to compare the private … value of innovations with the social one. This comparison sheds a new light on the consequences of non-rivalry of knowledge …

-desirable scale effects property and assumptions regarding the intensity of knowledge diffusion. In that respect, we extend a standard … Schumpeterian growth model by introducing explicitly knowledge diffusion over a Salop (1979) circle: a continuum of sectors … simultaneously sending and receiving knowledge is located over the circle. The link between knowledge diffusion and scale effects …

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning …

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 …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …

We study the impact of political knowledge on the attitudes of European citizens towards the possible distribution of … of political knowledge on attitudes we use an instrumental variables approach. The results show that more informed …