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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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Confidence and College Applications: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Schmacker, Renke; Terrier, Camille - 2023

This paper investigates the role self-confidence plays in college applications. Using incentivized experiments, we measure the self-confidence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. This data reveals that the best female and low-SES students significantly underestimate their...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-market Expectations, and Willingness to Train

Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023

We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...

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Startup innovation during the past economic crisis

Abou Lebdi, Nabil; Hussinger, Katrin - 2016

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The Capital Gains Tax: A Curse but Also a Blessing for Venture Capital Investment

Bock, Carolin; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

Our study analyzes the effect of the capital gains tax on the individual investment decisions of venture capitalists. By doing so, we are able to study the decisions for a sample of 76,852 funding rounds in 32 countries from 2000 to 2012. Our results support the predictions of the theoretical...

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Public innovation in Brazil: An overview of its types,results and drivers

Cavalcante, Pedro; Camões, Marizaura - 2017

lack of evidence-based knowledge regarding different dimensions of innovation prevails. One important dimension that must … transactional costs. In that sense, many have argued that innovation can contribute to improve the public service quality and … consensus about the increase of management innovation practices over the last two decades. However, as in other countries, the …

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Entry and Innovation in Vertically Differentiated Markets

Bergemann, Dirk; Valimaki, Juuso - 1999

with a currently inferior product opts for a large but risky innovation, whereas a currently superior product chooses a … smaller but certain innovation. …

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