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Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced-form analyses and model estimations. Based on a globally representative dataset on time preference in 76 countries, we document two sets of stylized facts. First, patience is...

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Social mobility and economic development

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...

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Does light touch cluster policy work? : evaluating the Tech City programme

Nathan, Max - 2019

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Demographics and the decline in firm entry : lessons from a life-cycle model

Röhe, Oke; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020

Since the mid-1970s, firm entry rates in the United States have declined significantly. This also holds for other OECD countries over the past years. At the same time, these economies experienced a gradual process of population aging. Applying a tractable life-cycle model with endogenous firm...

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Markets for technology in Europe : mapping demand and its drivers

Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019

Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …

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Firm formation and regional spillovers : evidence from Germany

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995

consistent with the existence of localization and urbanization effects. The emergence of high technology firms seems to be …

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Firm formation and regional spillovers - evidence from Germany

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995

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Business services in Germany : bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2000

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...

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A note on automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax

Gasteiger, Emanuel; Prettner, Klaus - 2017

We analyze the long-run growth effects of automation in the canonical overlapping generations framework. While automation implies constant returns to capital within this model class (even in the absence of technological progress), we show that it does not have the potential to lead to positive...

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A rural health supplement to the hookworm intervention in the American South

Fox, Jonathan; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation's Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to...

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