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This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...
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on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
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(SMEs). The aim of this paper is to empirically study the impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on Swiss SMEs two years … after the onset of the pandemic. Using a sample of 149 SMEs operating in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, we find … future pandemic on SMEs. Additionally, we quantify the impact of closure on SMEs and find that firms having reported to have …
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Microenterprises represent 88.4% of Latin American enterprises, and many countries in the region have developed microenterprise promotion policies in recent years; however, rigorous evaluation remains a pending issue. To shed light on the research done on this topic over 20 years and propose a...
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programmes available to all SMEs in the Northwestern Italian region (Piedmont). The analysis produces differential impacts based … and interest rate subsidies as most effective tools for assistance; -For SMEs, soft-loans and interest rate grants are the …
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This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
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Government R&D grants for SMEs have risen to three trillion Korean won a year, placing Korea second among OECD nations …
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Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi-experimental evaluation of R&D subsidies. I use data on ranked applicants to the U.S. Department of Energy's SBIR grant program. An award approximately doubles the probability that...
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On March 11, 2011 the strongest recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant Station. The triple 2011 disaster has had immense impacts on people life, health and property, social infrastructure and...
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