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The Role of Invention in U.S. Metropolitan Productivity

Rothwell, Jonathan T.; Lobo, José; Strumsky, Deborah - 2015

relationship between inventive activity and productivity at the level of U.S. metropolitan economies, using a patents database that … with and Granger causes higher productivity in metropolitan areas. A standard deviation increase in patents predicts a 6 … percent increase in productivity over 10 years. Higher-quality patents enhance the effect. We attempt to identify a cross …

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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930

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This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007

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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Efecto y distorsiones de los impuestos en los incentivos a la inversión y en los precios: Comparación Argentina - Estados Unidos

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Economics, area studies and human development

Ranis, Gustav - 2009

This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if we shift our attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards improvements in human development, especially the much broadened version of that concept. Different areas are shown...

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The startup process

Acs, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 121-132

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in Washington D.C. in 2007. The introduction has...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

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The historical fertility transition : a guide for economists

Guinnane, Timothy - 2010

The historical fertility transition is the process by which much of Europe and North America went from high to low fertility in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This transformation is central to recent accounts of long-run economic growth. Prior to the transition, women bore as many...

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