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Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017
clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between … economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of economic scholarship are measured here by the way other disciplines … cite us. We document a clear rise in the extramural influence of economic research, while also showing that economics is …
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Importing Skill-Biased Technology
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2011
Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it is complementary to skilled labor. Most countries import a large share of their capital equipment, and by doing so import skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a...
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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
Delcamp, Henry - 2014
We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members. Our analyses utilize membership data from 32 consortia in wireless telecommunication technology subfields from 2000 to 2005 and prior art citations in standards-essential...
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P - 2014
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067628
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2016
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2021
The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
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The Global Decline of the Labor Share
Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2015
The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of countries and industries. We show that the decrease...
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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie David; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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ICT Use in the Developing World : An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie David - 2014
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...
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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely...
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