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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from university technical colleges in England
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318733
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The E-word on the public acceptance of experiments
Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
experimental policy evaluation, a practice that is still uncommon in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139067
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Career concerns as public good : the role of signaling for open source software development
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023
Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492182
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Dismantling of a breakthrough : the Kyoto Protocol - just symbolic policy!
Böhringer, Christoph; Vogt, Carla - 2002
We show that U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol is straightforward under political economy considerations. The reason is that U.S. compliance costs exceed low willingness to pay for dealing with global warming in the U.S. The withdrawal had a crucial impact on the concretion of the Protocol...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001666884
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Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. They combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of...
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The long-term effect of research grants on the scientific output of university professors
Hussinger, Katrin; Carvalho, João N. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661280
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The long-term effect of research grants on the scientific output of university professors
Hussinger, Katrin; Carvalho, João N. - 2021
A major source of research funding for university professors are competitive research grants. With focus on Luxembourg … Research Fund (FNR), the central research funding agency in Luxembourg, increase the scientific output of university professors …, we present results from a difference-in-difference analysis which show that research grants by the Luxembourg National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648420
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Mental disorders and lifetime earnings
Salokangas, Henri - 2021
In advanced countries in particular, the mental well-being of adolescents and young adults is gaining increased amount of attention. Yet little is known about lifetime labor market costs attributable to mental disorders nor the related heterogeneity by the age of onset of psychiatric conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013394368
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Exploring the labor market consequences of psychiatric disorders: An event study approach
Salokangas, Henri - 2021
challenging to find a research design that could provide an reliable estimate for an effect. This paper provides new evidence on … assumption cannot be ruled out. This study provides evidence that research designs that use timing variation in the first health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013394371
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Cash incentives to mothers or to community health workers - what contributes better to the health of the mother and the newborn? Evidence from India
Baulia, Susmita - 2020
This paper investigates the role of demand-side incentives to mothers and supply-side incentives to community health workers (ASHAs) in improving maternal and child healthcare. These conditional cash benefits were part of a nationwide health intervention Janani Suraksha Yojana, introduced in...
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