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This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most promising path meet the nutrient needs for future...
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Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it … skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a tractable quantitative model of international trade in capital goods to …
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compare decentralization--where the business unit using the technology makes licensing decisions--to centralized licensing … technology markets favors centralization and drives higher licensing rates. Our model conforms to the existing evidence that …
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these shortcomings by focusing on technological learning-by-doing: the notion that it takes workers time using a technology …
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, technology, and geography, and that none of these alone is sufficient to account for the diverse patterns of global growth. We …
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-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue …
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In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains … from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … and development, brands, and organization capital. What distinguishes technology capital from other forms of capital is …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
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We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines … the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …
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