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Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme
Nathan, Max - 2019
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-differences and synthetic controls on rich microdata. I...
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Measuring Knowledge
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022
early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083722
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Invisible Geniuses : Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Barrett, Alan - 2013
the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076158
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Who Benefits from General Knowledge?
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2020
While vocational education is meant to provide occupational-specific skills that are directly employable, their returns may be limited in fast-changing economies. Conversely, general education should provide learning skills, but these may have little value at low levels of education. This paper...
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Local Employment Growth in West Germany : A Dynamic Panel Approach
Blien, Uwe; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja - 2021
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318319
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Does Population Sorting Through Internal Migration Increase Healthcare Costs and Needs in Peripheral Regions?
Kulshreshtha, Shobhit; Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2022
Large regional disparities in health and healthcare costs prevail in many countries, but our understanding of the underlying causes is still limited. This study shows for the case of the Netherlands that population sorting through internal migration can explain a substantial share, around 28%,...
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …
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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
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