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Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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Growth and inequality in public good games

Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - 2014

end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously …

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Terrorism and employment : evidence from successful and failed terror attacks

Brodeur, Abel - 2015

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...

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Understanding climate damages: consumption versus investment

Casey, Gregory; Fried, Stephie; Gibson, Matthew - 2021

Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings … data for the 1980-2009 period. We conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse …

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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...

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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare

Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...

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The impact of inflation targeting on inflation and growth: how robust is the evidence?

Junankar, Pramod N.; Wong, Chun Yee - 2020

This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … the process by which inflation targeting is hypothesised to influence inflation and growth, Section 3 surveys this … policy does not necessarily help to reduce inflation and certainly does not stimulate economic growth. …

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