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generations. Exit options across different political entities lead to a joint evolution of local power structures. …
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We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive … ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …, compulsory education is implemented first and triggers the onset of market R&D. According to the British way, market R&D is …
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In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape...
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We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …
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of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …
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studies focus their attention on tax compliance factors associated with trust and power. Therefore, this study is dedicated to … fully exploring these factors. The results show that most factors had a significant influence on trust and power. The … compliance. However, the study fails to find evidence of the relationship of power with enforced compliance, although enforced …
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effect. It further varies with politicians power, firm size and governance, and connection strength, and diminishes as a …
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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