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This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …
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did not find any effect of culture on savings. We revisit this evidence using a novel dataset, which allows us to study …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent ….This article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education.We find … the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture …
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2007–2009 data set for higher professional education (termed HBO in Dutch) graduates from Maastricht University. We use a …
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conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements …
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Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …
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