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Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Language as a Renewable Resource: Import, Dissipation, and Absorption of Innovations

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - CESifo - 2012

The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of import and dissipation of new elements is seen...

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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2014

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...

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Genes, Economics, and Happiness

Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Fowler, … - CESifo - 2010

We explore the influence of genetic variation on subjective well-being by employing a twin design and genetic association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction is explained by genetic variation. Although previous...

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Efficiency and Environmental Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-Fired Power Plants

Chan, H. Ron; Fell, Harrison; Lange, Ian A.; Li, Shanjun - CESifo - 2013

, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …

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