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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …
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migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
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especially in East Africa vis-à-vis the rest of the world, and strongest in the case of innovation in products and services …We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product … or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank …
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The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy are negatively correlated in a...
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knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
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To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …
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account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …
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This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …
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