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Inequality in socioemotional skills : a cross-cohort comparison

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Blundell, Richard W.; Conti, Gabriella - 2018

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct socio-emotional scales comparable across cohorts for both boys and girls, using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour. We identify two...

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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development

Atkin, David; Schoar, Antoinette; Shinde, Sumit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A growing literature explores the impact of home-based versus office-based work. Differences in productivity may arise due to a treatment effect of the office or from workers with different abilities sorting into office or home work. We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that...

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre - 2006

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

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