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Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Waights, Sevrin - In: Journal of Public Economics (2020) Forthcoming

We document gaps in day care enrolment by family background in a country with a universal day care system (Germany). Research demonstrates that children of parents with lower educational attainment and children of migrant parents may beneﬁt the most from day care, making it important to...

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The impact of an adult education voucher program: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 7-8, pp. 569-583

Lifelong learning is often promoted in aging societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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Surfing alone? The internet and social capital: Evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Public Economics 117 (2014) C, pp. 73-89

Does the Internet undermine social capital, such as real-world inter-personal relations and civic engagement? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects social capital. A first identification strategy uses...

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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies: Experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Riddell, Chris; Riddell, W. Craig - In: Journal of Public Economics 117 (2014) C, pp. 39-49

This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project (‘SSP’) was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...

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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana - In: Journal of Public Economics 121 (2015) C, pp. 1-13

We analyze the optimal share of the skilled workforce over the course of development with two sectors using skilled and unskilled labor respectively, and technological spillovers from higher education enrollment. Productivity in each sector depends on the average quality of workers and the size...

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Market size and innovation: Effects of Medicare Part D on pharmaceutical research and development

Blume-Kohout, Margaret E.; Sood, Neeraj - In: Journal of Public Economics 97 (2013) C, pp. 327-336

innovation. This paper assesses the impact of the Medicare Part D legislation on pharmaceutical research and development (R …

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Incentives to innovate and social harm: Laissez-faire, authorization or penalties?

Immordino, Giovanni; Pagano, Marco; Polo, Michele - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 864-876

undertake research by reducing its expected profitability (average deterrence) and may guide the use of innovation (marginal …. If fines are unbounded, laissez faire is optimal if the social harm from innovation is sufficiently unlikely; otherwise …, regulation should impose increasing penalties as innovation becomes more dangerous. If fines are bounded by limited liability …

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - In: Journal of Public Economics 113 (2014) C, pp. 13-31

entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness (or quality) of an innovation project, and on their mode of commercializing the innovation … choose projects with inefficiently little risk. The same distortion does not arise when entrepreneurs sell their innovation …

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