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The effect of high-tech clusters on the productivity of top inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in "Computer Science", "Semiconductors" and "Biology and Chemistry", accounting for 70%, 79% and 59% of inventors, respectively. Why do inventors tend to locate near other inventors...
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Does light touch cluster policy work? : evaluating the Tech City programme
Nathan, Max - 2019
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-differences and synthetic controls on rich microdata. I...
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Close neighbours matter : neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
Goux, Dominique (contributor); Maurin, Eric (contributor) - 2006
considerably larger than those which matter for outcomes (i.e. close neighbours). Several institutional features of France enable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310967
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Specialisation patterns and the synchronicity of regional employment cycles in Europe
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Heine, Jens M. (contributor) - 2004
This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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The value of hiring through referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
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Friendship networks and political opinions: a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2020
We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, the cradle of top French politicians. We exploit arbitrary assignments of students into short-term integration groups before their scholar cursus, and use the pairwise...
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IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0
Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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Divorce: what does learning have to do with it?
Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2015
Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …
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Child labor and learning
Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, André … - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …
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