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Public R&D Support and Firms’ Performance. A Panel Data Study
Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina; Nilsen, Øivind A. - 2018
We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002- 2013 and compare their effects on individual firms’ performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control group of firms that did not receive support using a combination of...
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The impact of public R&D support on firms' patenting
Bye, Brita; Klemetsen, Marit; Raknerud, Arvid - 2019
We examine the impact of both R&D tax credits and direct R&D subsidies on Norwegian firms' patenting. Whereas direct subsidies are aimed at projects with low private and high social return, tax credits do not discriminate between projects or technologies. We find that both direct subsidies and...
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On the causal effect of schooling on smoking: Evidence without exogeneity conditions
Boes, Stefan - 2011
order to derive testable constraints that bound the effect of schooling on smoking. Data from the Swiss Health Survey …
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Individual Heterogeneity and Price Responses in Tobacco Consumption: A Two-Commodity Analysis of Unbalanced Panel Data
Wangen, Knut R.; Biørn, Erik - 2001
The paper presents a panel data analysis of tobacco demand. The purpose is threefold: (i) to measure income, own-price, and cross-price responses for two tobacco commodities: cigarettes and handrolling tobacco, (ii) to investigate sociodemographic effects, and (iii) to utilize the potential...
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Prevalence and substitution effects in tobacco consumption: A discrete choice analysis of panel data
Wangen, Knut R.; Biørn, Erik - 2001
strongly as the 'smoking/non-smoking probabilities'. Cet.par., an increase in the price of manufactured cigarettes could lead … consumers to switch to hand rolled cigarettes, rather than quit smoking. Socio-demographic variables seem to be at least as … unobserved household specific effects in the smoking pattern. …
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Initiation into crime: An analysis of Norwegian register data on five birth cohorts
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Pudney, Stephen - 2011
We construct linked register data on five Norwegian birth cohorts, covering: criminal charges after age 15; family characteristics and history up to age 15; and (for males) IQ test scores. A longitudinal analysis of the risk of initiation into crime in early adulthood suggests an increased risk for...
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Anemia, diet, and cognitive development: Impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019
Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of children in rural India. Using experimental data and...
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Transitions to disability and rehabilitation
Andreassen, Leif; Kornstad, Tom - 2010
The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability among fully employed married women in Norway. Predictions using the model indicate that as much as 60 percent of full-time employed married women going into disability or...
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Overweight and obesity in low- and middle income countries: A panel-data analysis
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel dataset comprised of WHO and World Bank data for 126 low-...
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"Eat, my child". Overweight and obesity among children in developing countries
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn't found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households in developing countries, most of the attention is still...
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