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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631462
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Bright investments : measuring the impact of transport infrastructure using luminosity data in Haiti
Mitnik, Oscar A.; Sanchez, Raul; Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2018
This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using satellite night-light luminosity as a proxy measure. Our identification strategy exploits the differential timing of rehabilitation projects across various road segments of the primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955583
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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets
Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024
The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584324
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On gender gaps and self-fulfilling expectations : theory, policies and some empirical evidence
Rica, Sara de la (contributor); Dolado, Juan J. (contributor) - 2008
more effective in removing the gendered equilibrium. Empirical analysis based on a time use survey for Spain is provided to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726792
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Control rights in public-private partnerships
Francesconi, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003392741
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Long-run effects of public-private research joint ventures : the case of the Danish innovation consortia support scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - 2011
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422491
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The effect of Fe y Alegria on school achievement : exploiting a school lottery selection as a natural experiment
Lavado, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2016
Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772302
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Volume, risk, complexity : what makes development finance projects succeed or fail?
Eilers, Yota; Kluve, Jochen; Langbein, Jörg; Reiners, … - 2023
In 2022, governments around the world committed USD 211 bn. to official development assistance. Despite these high contributions, systematic assessments of the determinants of success - or failure - of development aid projects remain limited, particularly for bilateral development aid. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446096
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777922