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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles Using German Micro Data
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - Econometric Society - 2004
Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. To overcome the potential endogeneity, we need to identify variations in innovations that are exogenous to export...
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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles Using German Micro Data
Lachenmaier, Stefan - 2010
Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. Our instrumental-variable strategy identifies variation in innovative activity that is caused by specific impulses and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760867
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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles Using German Micro Data
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. Our instrumental-variable strategy identifies variation in innovative activity that is caused by specific impulses and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319300
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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
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School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World
Woessmann, Ludger; Luedemann, Elke; Schuetz, Gabriela; … - Edward Elgar
Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents …
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
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School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far?
Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest sized and statistically significant peer effects in test scores. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable...
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
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