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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950778
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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125872
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581508
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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595161
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Digital interventions to increase financial knowledge : evidence from a pilot RCT
Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2024
We study the effects of low-intensity digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students' financial knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial education treatment and an incentive-based approach...
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Non-compete agreements, tacit knowledge and market imperfections
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Zona Mattioli, … - 2024
This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the importance of workers' tacit knowledge about firms' intangible assets for competition in product and labor markets. Evidence is presented on product and labor market imperfections across manufacturing and services firms in the...
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China‘s great boom as a historical process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020
decentralized innovation. Historic legacies that shape political structures and individual behavior will continue to influence China …Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking … "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor historical analysis. This overlooks deep institutional constraints arising …
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Innovation, wages, and polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Su, Yaqin; Min … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance …
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Can you teach old dragons new tricks? : FDI and innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises
Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor);  … - 2006
. -- Innovation ; FDI ; state owned enterprises ; spillovers ; competition ; China …We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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