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Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …
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The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. We use a twolimit tobit model with sample selection, which explains the decisions by business enterprises...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …
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decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
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