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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2021
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
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Model uncertainty in matrix exponential spatial growth regression models
Piribauer, Philipp; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2013
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Nudging in education
Damgaard, Mette Trier; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2018
Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs and potential, future benefits. In such settings...
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Ipe : A Computable Index Measuring Market Evolutionary Pressure
Tucci, Michele; Barchetti, Luca - 2016
The working paper is concerning with the definition of IPE, a computable index measuring the intensity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035895
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The Global Innovation Index as a Measure of Triple Helix Engagement
Todeva, Emanuela - 2020
comparability across developed and developing countries. Each Index is introduced with its background, methodology, and how it … effects from the innovation process. The Global Innovation Index adds little to this portfolio, but offers a simplified … measurement remains focused on individual helices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098304
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Aggregate Index for Measuring the Economic and Technological Performance of Nations
Coccia, Mario - 2017
The crisis of international markets following recent events such as terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East, high public debts, growing financial globalisation and integration have raised an interest in the analysis of country risk among industrialised countries as well as emerging nations....
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Optimal policy for secondary education in developing countries
Dosmagambet, Yergali - 2015
This paper shows that an accelerated increase in educational attainments in many East Asian countries derives from a dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281876
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238369
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248827