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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric Jan; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013

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The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh; Jones, Sam - 2019

Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these two factors separately. This paper considers them...

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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy

Dang, Hai-Anh; Giang, Long T. - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in poorer countries. To fill in this gap, we implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey...

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Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey

Dang, Hai-Anh; Huynh, Toan L. D.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...

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Inequality and Support for Government Responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh; Malesky, Edmund; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...

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Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2020

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

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The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Vu, Khoa - 2022

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...

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What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa Data

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Vu, Khoa; Lee, Jongwook - 2021

Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments. We provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong...

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