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that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that … use new micro-data from three countries - France, Spain and the United States - to examine one mechanism whereby such … university in a given year it is more likely to open an establishment near that university in subsequent years than other firms …
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This paper presents a simple model of state-dependent pricing that allows identification of the relative importance of the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets...
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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. We show that this is not the case at the competitive exams used to recruit almost all French secondary and...
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) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98). The average per …
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Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and …
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unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …
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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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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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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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