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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...

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Techies and firm level productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …

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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration

Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and education decisions. We identify bilateral...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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Growth and the geography of knowledge

Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018

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 …

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries 1986 - 2006

Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002

When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...

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