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Externalities and subsidization of higher education : conference paper

Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - 2013

positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … paper shortly reviews theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence on externalities. It is found that evidence on … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction : paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stu...

Faik, Jürgen - 2013

The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating subjective equivalence scales using "life...

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Demand forces of technical change evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry : conference paper

Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - 2013

This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income distribution which is exogenous to changes in prices and...

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