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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … natural sciences and narrower fields such as economics and biology. Two measures of institutional collaboration are examined … collaboration patterns across universities and then use regression analysis to examine the impact of IT exposure on multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216751
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721624
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822044
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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822045
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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J.; Mullen, Kathleen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822092
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Selective Schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822094
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Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability Stratification
Cornwell, Christopher; Mustard, David B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
aid has been increased attention to sorting in various aspects of life, especially in education. This paper examines the … extent to which merit-based aid exacerbates or ameliorates sorting by ability in higher education. We use panel data from … Peterson’s Guide to Colleges and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to evaluate this relationship. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822119
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages
Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822148
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Education and Mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822153
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Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822163