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This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into a cooperative R&D relationship is related to the antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, allows the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … from workers to capitalists. Further, the overall effect of an increase in education depends on the actual characteristics …
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
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