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Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial...

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Chapter 8. Student Loans and Repayment : Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Lochner, L.; Monge-Naranjo, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 397-478). 2016

Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the USA, student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent...

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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A Schumpeterian model of investment and innovation with labor market regulation

Calcagnini, Giorgio; Giombini, Germana; Travaglini, Giuseppe - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 27 (2018) 7/8, pp. 628-651

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Chapter 61. Knowledge Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation

AUDRETSCH, DAVID B.; FELDMAN, MARYANN P. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2713-2739). 2004

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics … of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was … aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and geography. However, empirical results hinted that knowledge production …

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