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This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …
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How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … in talent, frictions, and preferences. We link the model to micro-level data from Denmark and uncover a host of facts … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study …
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library productivity measures and because of the availability of data to implement the framework. Preliminary estimates are …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …
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Differences in labor compensation across 31 large public library systems are examined based on the author's interview …
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The operations of 31 large public library systems across the country are compared using information from the author' s … be associated with differences in library services and demographics. The number of materials acquired per capita has a … strong impact on library use …
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Cultural transmission arguably plays an important role in the determination of many fundamental preference traits (e.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards family and fertility practices, and attitudes...
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This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
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How much are people willing to forego to be honest, to follow the rules? When people do break the rules, what can standard data sources tell us about their behavior? Standard economic models of crime typically assume that individuals are indifferent to dishonesty, so that they will cheat or lie...
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Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....
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