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Determinants of Grades in Maths for Students in Economics

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pozzoli, Dario - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2009

This paper investigates the determinants of grades achieved in mathematics by rst-year students in Economics. We use individual administrative data from 1993 to 2005 to t an educational production function. Our main ndings suggest that good secondary school achievements and the type of school...

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Falling Educational Wage Premia in Italy

Naticchioni, Paolo; Ricci, Andrea - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 4

In this paper we analyze the evolution of Educational wage premia (Ewp) in the Italian private sector. Drawing upon the Household income and wealth survey (Bank of Italy) we show that Ewp showed a general decrease between 1993 and 2004, at all quantiles of the wage distribution. Our findings do...

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US universities' net returns from patenting and licensing: a quantile regression analysis

Bulut, H.; Moschini, G. - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 18 (2009) 2, pp. 123-137

Consistent with the rights and incentives provided by the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, US universities have increased their involvement in patenting and licensing activities through their own technology transfer offices. Only a few US universities are obtaining large returns, however, whereas others...

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Minimizing Loss at Times of Financial Crisis: Quantile Regression as a Tool for Portfolio Investment Decisions

Allen, David E; Singh, Abhay Kumar - School of Business, Edith Cowan University - 2009

interest in tools for robust risk management. Quantile regression is a suitable candidate and deserves the interest of … present quantile regression estimation as an attractive additional investment tool, which is more efficient than Ordinary … the effectiveness of quantile regression based techniques as applied across the quantiles of return distributions to …

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The Human Cost of Economic Crises

Alexander, Marcus; Matthew, Matthew Harding; Lamarche, … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2009

Policy makers rely on a mix of government spending and tax cuts to address imbalances in the economy during an economic crisis. However, little discussion appears to focus explicitly on the costs of economic crises in terms of human lives, especially the lives of the most vulnerable members of...

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The Great Divide in Scientific Productivity. Why the Average Scientist Does Not Exist

Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2009

We use a quantile regression approach to estimate the eects of age, gender, research funding, teaching load and other …-eects quantile regression model, accounting for unobserved heterogeneity of researchers. We employ recent advances in quantile … the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001 shows strong support for our quantile regression approach, revealing the dierential …

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Evidence of convergence in Eastern Europe: a quantile regression approach

Naghshpour, Shahdad - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 133-152

regression to the mean. An alternative approach relies on quantile regression to overcome this problem. Different quantile …

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A note on schooling and wage inequality in the public and private sector

Patrinos, Harry; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; Sakellariou, Chris - In: Empirical Economics 37 (2009) 2, pp. 383-392

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Agglomeration economies: new evidence on IT employment growth in Italy

Lasagni, A. - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Parma - 2009

lower employment growth rates. As a robustness check, quantile regression analysis is performed. This additional set of …

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Productivity, Ownership and National Chains: Evidence from the British Retail Sector

Higón, Dolores Añón - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 55 (2009) 4, pp. 313-334

This paper investigates factors explaining firms’ productivity differences in the British retail sector. In particular, using simultaneous quantile regressions, it aims to uncover performance gaps stemming from foreign ownership and multinationality, as well as national scale economies. The...

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