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To be born is not enough : the key role of innovative startups
Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
This paper investigates the reasons why entry per se is not necessarily good and the evidence showing that innovative startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that greater survival is achieved when startups engage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452416
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969747
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Grades, aspirations and post-secondary education outcomes
Christofidēs, Loizos N.; Hoy, Michael; Milla, Joniada; … - 2012
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627346
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The short- and long-term career effects of graduating in a recession : hysteresis and heterogeneity in the market for college graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739942
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Why do women leave science and engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629002
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Mind, behaviour and health : a randomised experiment
Alem, Yonas; Behrendt, Hannah; Belot, Michèle; Bíró, … - 2016
Behavioural attitudes towards risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility of training the mind to alter these attitudes and biases, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497132
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Returns to teaching repetition : the effect of short-term teaching experience on student outcomes
Cuffe, Harold E.; Feld, Jan; O'Grady, Trevor - 2019
Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university...
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Do friendship networks improve female education?
Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asad; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2017
We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...
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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement
Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501863