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College Openings and Local Economic Development

Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022

We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures : The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2011

Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms : A Regional Investigation

Iammarino, Simona - 2009

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the …

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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities.These determinants are … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …

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Ability Peer Effects in University : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Booij, Adam S. - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students – conditional on their ability – randomly. The data...

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Social Ties in Academia : A Friend is a Treasure

Colussi, Tommaso - 2015

This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. Results show that an...

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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010

from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …

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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets : Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …

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