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Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia

Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...

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Interactions between health and farm-labor productivity:

Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Chiang, Catherine; Thangata, Paul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

flourish. Lack of diet diversity can lead to malnutrition. Certain animal diseases also can infect humans. Labor migration … (including agricultural labor migration) can contribute to high incidence of HIV infection. The effects of ill health on farm … ill health include loss of farming knowledge, reduction of land under cultivation, planting of less labor-intensive crops …

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The impact of uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation

Bloom, Nick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Uncertainty appears to vary strongly over time, temporarily rising by up to 200% around major shocks like the Cuban Missile crisis, the assassination of JFK and 9/11. This paper offers the first structural framework to analyze uncertainty shocks. I build a model with a time varying second...

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Is Poland the next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … reallocation of labor from agriculture to manufacturing and services, which have higher capital intensity and use resources more …

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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

of labor-intensive agricultural technologies, to extend and strengthen school systems in rural areas, to promote … competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no …

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From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival

Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

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