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It's All in Marshall : The Impact of External Economies on Regional Dynamics
Audretsch, David B. - 2015
Marshall's student Pigou noted: quot;It's all in Marshall.quot; From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change. Indeed, over time, Marshall's concept...
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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Gobillon, Laurent - 2014
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …
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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Gobillon, Laurent - 2013
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …
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Student and Worker Mobility Under University and Government Competition
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021
between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to …
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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches
Aina, Carmen - 2019
university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … bargaining approach, the decision to delay graduation or dropout from university is related to bargaining within the family …
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College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device
Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022
How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...
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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization : Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources
Boucekkine, Raouf - 2017
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic...
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Violence and Human Capital Investments
Koppensteiner, Martin - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of exposure to homicides in the public way on these...
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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
Bell, Clive - 2019
This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861271
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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2015
The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...
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