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Teacher Performance Pay in the United States : Incidence and Adult Outcomes
Bond, Timothy - 2018
This paper estimates the effect of exposure to teacher pay-for-performance programs on adult outcomes. We construct a comprehensive data set of schools which have implemented teacher performance pay programs across the United States since 1986, and use our data to calculate the fraction of...
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Catching Up is Hard to Do : Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students : Experimental Evidence from Italy
Azzolini, Davide - 2018
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial aimed at testing the effectiveness of an innovative intervention of asset building (Percorsi) on high school students' transition to the university. Contrary to most traditional forms of financial aid, the tested intervention is...
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Educational Inequality
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...
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Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from Covid-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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