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Spillovers from universities : evidence from the land-grant program
Liu, Shimeng - In: Journal of urban economics 87 (2015), pp. 25-41
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School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden
Dahl, Christian M.; Hansen, Casper W.; Jensen, Peter S.; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long-term outcomes of school children. Using the universe of death certificates from 1914-1920 and newly-collected data on school closures across 2,100 districts, we conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469437
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New insights into the role of global factors in BRICS stock markets : a quantile cointegration approach
Wang, Ningli; You, Wan-hai - In: Economic systems 47 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317425
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School closures, mortality, and human capital : evidence from the universe of closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden
Dahl, Christian M.; Winther, Casper Hein; Jensen, Peter … - 2023
This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long-term outcomes of school children. Using the universe of death certificates from 1914-1920 and newly-collected data on school closures across 2,100 districts, we conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014424093
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Land-grant university governance: an analysis of board composition and corporate interlocks
Woodward, Andrea - In: Agriculture and Human Values 26 (2009) 1, pp. 121-131
This paper was inspired by the intersection of Tom Lyson’s interest in how power is concentrated in society’s institutions and his concern for the role of the land-grant system in revealing and addressing inequities that occur as a result of such concentration. This study examines the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849418
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Ever Since Hightower: The Politics of Agricultural Research Activism in the Molecular Age
Buttel, Frederick - In: Agriculture and Human Values 22 (2005) 3, pp. 275-283
In 1973, Jim Hightower and his associates at the Agribusiness Accountability Project dropped a bombshell – Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times – on the land-grant college and agricultural science establishments. From the early 1970s until roughly 1990, Hightower-style criticism of and activism toward...
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REGIONAL TRENDS IN EXTENSION SYSTEM RESOURCES
Ahearn, Mary Clare; Yee, Jet; Bottum, John S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003
In 1914, the Cooperative Extension Service was established to disseminate information about agriculture and home economics from land-grant universities to the U.S. public. At that time, about 30 percent of U.S. workers were in agriculture-related occupations; by the late 1990s, that share had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806538
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Public Vs. Private Good Research at Land-Grant Universities
Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K.; Stevens, Reid - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2008
The basic concern of this paper is the effect of private sponsorship of university research on the allocation of expenditures between public good research and commercial applications. Throughout the land-grant university system, there is much concern that as a result of reduced government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676552
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New Economic Geography
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2004
addressed. In particular, we investigate the effects of transport costs for agricultural goods, spatial spillovers, the presence … spillovers across the regions, the more income spent on services, the more limited the mobility of the labour force. … ist, je höher die Transportkosten für Agrargüter sind, je mehr positive Spillovers zwischen den Regionen vorhanden sind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263274
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Technologie, Lernexternalitäten und Ungleichentwicklung: Einkommenszyklen offener Volkswirtschaften
Andrä, Jan - 2011
durch anreizkompatible Verteilung der Handelsgewinne, durch Auftreten von Spillovers der Lernexternalität zwischen den …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474402