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Long-run substitutability between more and less educated workers: Evidence from U.S. States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

We estimate the aggregate long-run elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers (the slope of the demand curve for more relative to less educated workers) at the US state level. Our data come from the (five)1950-1990 decennial censuses. Our empirical approach allows for...

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Clusters of entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...

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Externalities and interdependent growth: Theory and evidence

Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

I formulate and estimate a model of externalities within countries and technological interdependence across countries. I find that external returns to scale to physical capital within countries are 8 percent; that a 10 percent increase of total factor productivity of a country's neighbors raises...

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Falling real wages during an industrial revolution

Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

The Industrial Revolution was characterized by technological progress and an increasing capital intensity. Why did real wages stagnate or fall in the beginning? I answer this question by modeling the Industrial Revolution as the introduction of a relatively more capital intensive production...

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Evaluating Collaborations in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Network Analysis

Zickafoose, Joseph S.; Kimmey, Laura D.; Tomas, Amber; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration has become a key feature of comparative effectiveness research … (CER), and CER funders have made promotion of these types of collaboration an implicit, and sometimes explicit, goal of … funding. An important challenge in evaluating CER programs is understanding if and how different forms of collaboration are …

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Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care.

Brown, Jonathan D. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

Systems of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances have historically not included linkages with primary care. As part of a special issue of Evaluation and Program Planning focused on redefining systems of care, this article proposes that the inclusion of primary care as...

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The Importance of Collaboration in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Kimmey, Laura D.; Rich, Eugene - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

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Preparing for Productive Careers: Students' Participation In and Use of Career-Focused Learning Activities

Haimson, Joshua; Deke, John - Mathematica Policy Research - 2003

Helping students formulate career goals and prepare for successful careers continues to be an important educational objective pursued by many high schools. This report examines the challenges faced by a recent cohort of high school students as they sought to define and achieve their goals, the...

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What Do Effective Teachers of Inner-City Children have in Common?

Murnane, Richard J.; Phillips, Barbara R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 1981

This paper investigates the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary...

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How Do Test Scores at the Floor and Ceiling Affect Value-Added Estimates?

Resch, Alexandra; Isenberg, Eric - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Some educators are concerned that students with test scores at the bottom or top of the test score distribution will negatively affect the value-added estimates of teachers of those students.

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