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Early childcare duration and students' later outcomes in Europe
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022
The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe
Colombelli, Alessandra; Foddi, Marta; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...
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Model uncertainty in matrix exponential spatial growth regression models
Piribauer, Philipp; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2013
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EU industrial policy must utilize and connect heterogeneous regional potentials
Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 144-145
Digitalization is changing the industrial sector and introducing new global challenges • EU industrial policy aims to counter these challenges by increasing industry’s share of value added • DIW Berlin analyses show that selected regions with a low share of industry can play an important...
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FDI and growth : can different regional identities shape the returns to foreign capital investments?
Casi, Laura; Resmini, Laura - 2014 - First draft
Do regional identities determine different levels of FDI-induced growth? This paper analyses the impact of FDI on the growth rates of European regions. In so doing, it discusses the role of different components of territorial capital in magnifying or daunting such an impact. The paper starts...
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Regional bank efficiency and its effect on regional growth in "normal" and "bad" times
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Setzer, Ralph - 2015
The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which incorporate banks with a higher intermediation quality grow faster in “normal” times and are more resilient in “bad” ones. For this purpose, we measure the...
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Intergenerational transmission of human capital in Europe : evidence from SHARE
Stella, Luca - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-24
This paper extends the previous literature on the intergenerational transmission of human capital by exploiting variation in compulsory schooling reforms across nine European countries over the period 1920–1956. My empirical strategy follows an instrumental variable (IV) approach,...
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Foreign Direct Investment and growth : the role of territorial capital
Casi, Laura; Resmini, Laura - 2012 - This version: June 2012, first draft
In the last years, and particularly since the publication of the famous Barca Report (Barca, 2009), the European Union (EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a territorial approach can be in order to achieve desirable...
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Regional Growth and Finance in Europe : Is There a Quality Effect of Bank Efficiency?
Hasan, Iftekhar - 2009
In this study, we test whether regional growth in 11 European countries depends on financial development and suggest the use of cost- and profit-efficiency estimates as quality measures for financial institutions. Contrary to the usual quantitative proxies for financial development, the quality...
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The Innovation Index in Europe
Leogrande, Angelo; Laureti, Lucio; Costantiello, Alberto - 2022
The following article analyzes the determinants of the innovation index in Europe. The data refer to the European … Data, Pooled OLS, WLS. The results show that the Innovation Index is negatively connected to some variables, among which … which shows the presence of 2 clusters per value of the Innovation Index. Eight machine learning algorithms has been used …
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