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Microeconomic Aspects of Productivity Growth Under Import Substitution : Turkey
Krueger, Anne O.; Tuncer, Baran - 2021
This paper assesses the empirical relevance of "dynamic" factors in industrialization in developing countries. Using data from a sample of 91 firms, rates of growth of output per unit of input are calculated. It is shown that there is little basis, at least with regard to Turkish experience, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223348
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Innovation and Productivity
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067735
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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - 2022
How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093398
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The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity
Jacob, Brian; Lefgren, Lars John - 2021
estimates represent about 20 and 7 percent increases in research productivity for F32 and R01 recipients respectively. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311953
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality : Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
Cesur, Resul - 2013
fuel on infant mortality in Turkey, using variation across provinces and over time in the intensity of natural gas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087782
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul - 2013
Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071303
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Better Luck Next Time : Learning Through Retaking
Frisancho, Verónica - 2013
disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administrative data on the university entrance exam in Turkey we estimate cumulative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072580
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Women's Education : Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey
Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - 2013
We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073562
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Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
Barjamovic, Gojko - 2017
We analyze a large dataset of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the 19th Century BCE. Using the information collected from these records, we estimate a structural gravity model of long-distance trade in the Bronze Age. We use our structural gravity model to locate lost ancient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944150
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Government Finance in the Wake of Currency Crises
Burnside, A. Craig - 2010
recent currency crises: Korea (1997), Mexico (1994) and Turkey (2001) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762806