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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2009

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions withoutthe consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...

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Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric Alan - W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy … - 1998

[...]This paper analyzes the current state of the educationsystem in the United States. In the course of the paper, Iwill try to point out where controversy exists, particularlyin academic discussions.[...]

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What Do America’s “Traditional” Forms of School Choice Teach Us about School Choice Reforms?

Hoxby, Caroline Minter - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.> / Bureau for … - 1998

taste for education, as wellas race and ethnicity),1 (3) school efficiency, (4) teachers’salaries and teacher unionism, and …

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Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census data from 1971, localadministrative data from 1998 onwards, and over 400 interviews conducted in 1999 and2001.The neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three...

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Talking to Families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …

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annual report 2006

London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This report covers CASE’s activities duringthe calendar year 2 006 (with financialand related information for the 2 005-06academic year). This is the ninth yearof the Centre’s core funding from theCouncil, which will end in December2007. The Centre is currently exploringalternative ways of...

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with … ability, motivation, education, and other aspects of the youngperson’s experience which differ between families, but are not a …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …

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Does the Jack of All Trades Hold the Winning Hand?:Comparing the Role of Specialized Versus GeneralSkills in the Returns to an Agricultural Degree

Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kimle, Kevin; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011

This paper examines the roles of specialized versus general skills in explaining variation in thereturns to an agriculture degree across majors inside and outside the agricultural industry. Thefocus on returns by sector of employment is motivated by the finding that most agriculturalmajors are...

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Using patents to mislead rivals

Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

Recent surveys report that firms claim they do not rely heavily on patents in order toappropriate a return on their innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version...

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