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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project

Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - CESifo - 2001

This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...

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Technological Change, Entry and Stock Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Transition in a Monopolistic Economy

Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw D. - CESifo - 2002

valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …

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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …

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Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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Culture, Spatial Diffusion of Ideas and their Long-Lasting Imprints - Evidence from Froebel's Kindergarten Movement

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2014

We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel’s radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel’s birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to...

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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013

finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. …

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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