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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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The golden age of Nobel economists

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 1997

Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...

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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental health or physical health is worse when it is too warm. Workers may experience difficulties concentrating or they have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We...

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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

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Dynamic determinants of optimal global climate policy

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-gas emitting systems, such as inertia, induced innovation, and pathdependency, by formulating a compact and analytically tractable …

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Pharmaceutical research strategies

Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - 2008

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Optimal diversity in investments with recombinant innovation

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - 2008

innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules with the objective to … innovation) and the benefits associated with returns to scale. We derive conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes …

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