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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
Guellec, Dominique - 2017
top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation – new products and processes based on … Schumpeter's vision, digital innovation gives rise to ”winner-take-all” market structures, characterized by higher market power … digital non-rivalry, which allows for massive economies of scale and reduces costs of innovation. The latter stimulates higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944156
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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022
We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298326
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018152
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034169
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Fifteen Years on : Household Incomes in South Africa
Leibbrandt, Murray - 2011
This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between 1993 and 2008; the start and the end of the first fifteen years of post-apartheid South Africa. These data show an increase in average per capita real incomes across the distribution....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131678
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Does Health Insurance Coverage Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) has affected child mortality, maternal mortality, and school enrollment of the 6-16 years olds. Our data cover 5.9 million people living in eight low-income rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137467
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Revising Commitments : Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
Giné, Xavier - 2012
The very poor in developing countries often make intertemporal choices that seem at odds with their individual self-interest. There are many possible reasons why. We investigate several of these reasons with a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Malawi involving large stakes. We make two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106639
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The Effect of Village-Based Schools : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
Burde, Dana - 2012
We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107015
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Up in Smoke : the Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107019
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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant - 2013
This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083388