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Does the Field of Study Influence Students' Political Attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Bjoern; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
We investigate whether the field of study influences university students’ political attitudes. To disentangle self-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with their political attitudes. In a second step we...
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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?
Becker, William E. - 2010
Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - CESifo - 2010
Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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Dynamically Optimal R&D Subsidization
Grossmann, Volker - 2010
Previous research on optimal R&D subsidies has focussed on the long run. This paper characterizes the optimal time path of R&D subsidization in a semi-endogenous growth model, by exploiting a recently developed numerical method. Starting from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in...
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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers : Dying over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations
Li, Yao Amber - 2012
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 …
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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...
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Do Cost-Sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper examines the role of both cost-sharing schemes in health insurance systems and entry regulation for pharmaceutical R&D expenditure, drug prices, aggregate productivity, and income. The analysis suggests that both an increase in the coinsurance rate and stricter price regulations...
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Selection Biases in Complementary R&D Projects
Choi, Jay Pil - 2011
This paper analyzes selection biases in the project choice of complementary technologies that are used in combination to produce a final product. In the presence of complementary technologies, patents allow innovating firms to hold up rivals who succeed in developing other system components....
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Technological Regimes in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry : An Empirical Investigation
Vieira, Vinicius - 2013
methods based on variable approximating technological opportunity, appropriability, cumulativeness and knowledge base. The …
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