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Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa
Lam, David A. - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in South Africa. Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyze the large racial gaps in the proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university...
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Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions
Case, Anne - 2021
The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult, given the simultaneous determination of health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239169
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The Control of Strategic Alliances : An Empirical Analysis of Biotechnology Collaborations
Merges, Robert P.; Lerner, Josh - 2021
In this paper, we examine the determinants of control rights in technology strategic alliances between biotechnology firms and pharmaceutical corporations, as well as with other biotechnology firms. We undertake three clinical studies and an empirical analysis of 200 contracts. Consistent with...
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Productivity in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology R&D : The Role of Experience and Alliances
Danzon, Patricia M.; Nicholson, Sean; Sousa Pereira, Nuno - 2021
Using data on over 900 firms for the period 1988-2000, we estimate the effect on phase-specific biotech and pharmaceutical R&D success rates of a firm's overall experience, its experience in the relevant therapeutic category; the diversification of its experience, and alliances with large and...
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Biotech-Pharmaceutical Alliances as a Signal of Asset and Firm Quality
Nicholson, Sean; Danzon, Patricia M.; McCullough, Jeffrey - 2021
Biotechnology companies rely heavily on alliances with pharmaceutical companies to finance their research and development expenditures, and pharmaceutical firms rely heavily on alliances to supplement their internal research and development. Previous studies suggest that asymmetric information...
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An Empirical Investigation of the Competitive Effects of Domestic Airline Alliances
Bamberger, Gustavo E.; Carlton, Dennis W.; Neumann, … - 2021
In this paper, we investigate empirically the effect of two recent domestic airline alliances. We find that both alliances benefited consumers - average fares fell and total traffic increased after the creation of the alliances on those city pairs affected by the alliances. We also find that...
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White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2011
Between 1940 and 1980, the homeownership rate among metropolitan African-American households increased by 27 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of this increase occurred in central cities. We show that rising black homeownership in central cities was facilitated by the movement of white...
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Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present
Collins, William J. - 2011
We present estimates of home ownership for African-American and white households from 1870 to 2007. The estimates pertain to a sample of households headed by adult men participating in the labor force but the substantive findings are unchanged if the analysis is extended to all households. Over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131674
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Variable Temptations and Black Mark Reputations
Aperjis, Christina - 2010
In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We … consider two-player situations where the players meet but once. One player - the truster - decides whether to trust, and the … the number of black marks does not prolong trust beyond black marks alone. Finally, we consider more general summary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137612
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Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s : Gender Differences in Trends
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138079