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, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …
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We present evidence consistent with large disparities across firms in the on-the-job learning their young employees … experience, using administrative datasets from Brazil and Italy. We categorize firms into discrete "classes" using a clustering … methodology which groups together firms with similar distributions of unexplained earnings growth. Equipped with this …
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information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads …
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country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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constraints on productive entrepreneurship would require that the decline in level-two institutions, such as democracy and science …
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explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development …
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explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development …
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