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; innovation ; social network …
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1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
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In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer …-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm …
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Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the … graduates' contributions to innovation. …
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through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on … other subjects or attendance rates. -- library ; randomized controlled trial ; education ; development …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …
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"We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if altruistic parents are unable to commit to educating their children, child-labor laws can increase...
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This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
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