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Men in low-income countries invest considerably more years in school than women. From low- to high-income countries, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work, I assess in how far this decline may be related to the...
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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We examine the long-term impact of violence on educational attainment, with evidence from Colombia's La Violencia. Individuals exposed to violence during, and especially before, their schooling years experience a significant and economically meaningful decrease in years of schooling. This impact...
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effect on innovation where there are substantial intraorganizational knowledge synergies, where path dependence is low, and … recombination on firm innovation while highlighting the role of structural recombination in realizing untapped knowledge synergies …This paper examines how structural recombination of business units within a firm impacts subsequent firm innovation. We …
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