available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to …

In order to induce farmers to adopt a productive new agricultural technology, we apply simple and complex contagion … technology. A randomized controlled trial compares these theory-driven network targeting approaches to simpler strategies that … between households) to identify seed farmers. Our results indicate that technology diffusion is characterized by a complex …

We investigate what happens to hours worked after a positive shock to technology, using the aggregate technology series …

We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated … the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent … research and development. This allows one to examine not only how technology affects trade, but also how trade affects the …

differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment … hiring and training response is quicker than the wage response. We also observe in time series that the pace of technology … technology, maturing of the workforce, and growth of international trade reduce unemployment in the longer run. The same …

creation of formal technology licensing offices at universities. Up until approximately the mid-1980s, university patents were …

a rising return to education, unobserved skill, and work experience, but there is little research into causes of the … change in structure. This paper seeks to fill the gap by study- ing the impact of domestic technology, foreign technology and … for 24 manufacturing industries. Holding time and industry effects constant we find that in most cases technology has the …

technology embodied therein) ages. According to our estimates, the education-distribution of employment depends more strongly on … which "experience"on a technology (proxied by the mean age of the capital stock) enters "non-neutrally." Our specification …

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …

Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it … skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a tractable quantitative model of international trade in capital goods to …