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This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and real-time bio-tracking, we...
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In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic...
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Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...
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different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …
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use new micro-data from three countries - France, Spain and the United States - to examine one mechanism whereby such …
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Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...
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which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government … from OECD countries and firm level data from France. To deal with the potentially endogenous allocation of government R …
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This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O …*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However …
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