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When Protectionism Kills Talent
Canayaz, Mehmet I.; Erel, Isil; Gurun, Umit G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the repercussions of protectionist policies implemented in the United States since 2018 on the composition of workforce and career choices within the semiconductor industry. We find that the shift towards protectionism, aimed at reviving domestic manufacturing and employment,...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools
Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation. Progress on this topic has been inhibited by difficulties in measuring distance and movement in knowledge space. We describe a methodology that infers the mapping of the...
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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660017
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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
Collins, William J. - 2003
African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468926
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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We …
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Investment in U.S. Education and Training
Mincer, Jacob - 1994
The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474071
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
Card, David - 1990
, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475675
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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study
Edwards, Sebastian - 2014
specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational … estimation technique: we find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been … associated with higher test scores. The quality of education depends on socioeconomic, structural, and policy variables, such as …
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