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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392484
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166025
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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns
Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017
To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757767
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234470
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Firm training
Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540828
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786022
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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Heterogeneous effects of capital-embodied innovation on labor market
Park, Hyejin; Shim, Younghun - 2024
This paper develops an occupation-level measure of Capital-Embodied Innovation (CEI) by matching patents with capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507782
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Bureaucratic frictions and innovation procurement
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2023
US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431269
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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect investments in education and how much reducing these frictions can improve student achievement. In Los Angeles, a random sample of parents was provided de-tailed information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533076