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Disputes over whether the Scientific Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution begin with the common assumption that natural philosophers and artisans formed radically distinct groups. In reality, these groups merged together through a diverse group of applied mathematics teachers,...
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firms to hire scientists who have an intrinsic motivation to pursue academic research and allow them to do so while they … scientists from remaining in academia, is sufficiently low. Allowing scientists to pursue an academic agenda facilitates … participation. When scientists are privately informed about their "taste for science", the contract requires that the more …
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This paper contributes to the aid effectiveness debate by applying a vector autoregression model to a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries. This method avoids the need for instrumental variables and allows one to analyse the impact of foreign aid on human development and on economic...
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This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual's mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically meaningful effect in both binary and ordered probit models using both an...
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