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The nonprofit sector has experienced exponential growth over the past three decades with nearly 50,000 new nonprofits created last year. Past examples of industry growth suggest that this rate of growth is not sustainable. Empirical population ecology studies of nascent industries show a period...
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Purpose This study explores the different learning practices of Chinese incubators in Chongqing and Chengdu and delves … into how these "learning huddles" influence incubatees' absorptive capacity (the ability to apply knowledge) to improve … building and reflecting on the theoretical propositions, leading to a further understanding of the "learning huddle" mechanism …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …
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We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....
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