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Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...
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We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...
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Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....
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organisational changes and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current world crisis, hourly labour productivity …
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We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...
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Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …
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organisational changes and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current world crisis, hourly labour productivity …
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? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without significant costs? If research funding is already maximizing knowledge …'s most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness … production, then spatial reallocation of that funding will reduce America's overall innovation unless that reallocation comes …
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tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most … universities, which, historically, have been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly dependent on funding from … evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …
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that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …
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