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Student effort and educational attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function
Metcalfe, Robert; Burgess, Simon; Proud, Steven - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
We use a sharp, exogenous and repeated change in the value of leisure to identify the impact of student effort on educational achievement.  The treatment arises from the partial overlap of the world's major international football tournaments with the exam period in England.  Our data enable a...
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
Helmers, Christian; Hall, Bronwyn H. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
innovation and international technology transfer in general.  The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous.  We then …-related technologies.  We conclude that the "double externality" problem, that is the presence of both environmental and knowledge …
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