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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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The political economy of educational content and development : lessons from history
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2013
Beyond years of schooling, educational content can play an important role in the process of economic development. Individuals ́choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first...
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …'s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
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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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
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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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...
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Urbanization and economic development : a tale of two barriers
Bond, Eric W.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2016
n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in rapidly industrializing countries. We use a dynamic, small open economy model with an abundant supply of surplus labor in rural areas, two types of traded goods manufactured in...
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
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