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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2010
Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's quot;culturequot;? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a natural experiment offered by the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759357
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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and Us Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121726
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Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
Bazzi, Samuel - 2019
We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities. We find greater integration in fractionalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889698
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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences : Evidence from African Football
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2018
We examine whether shared collective experiences can help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub- Saharan Africa. Combining individual survey data with information on official matches played between 2000 and 2015, we find that individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917599
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
explain international technology diffusion is genetic distance relative to the world technological frontier ("relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114981
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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production : Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob B. - 2012
Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099411
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064941
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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 … enables influencing peers' innovation strategies related to compatibility standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065932
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066797