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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

by Acs, Zoltan J Audretsch, David B Lehmann, Erik E
edited by Audretsch, David B Lehmann, Erik E J. Acs, Zoltan
Published in Small business economics (01.12.2013)

“...According to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, the context in which decision-making is derived can influence one's determination to become an...”

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Training, wages, and sample selection: Estimating sharp bounds on treatment effects

by Lee, David S Published in The Review of economic studies (2009)

“...This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally funded job training programs in the U.S. Even with the...”

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Worms at work: long-run impacts of a child health investment

by Baird, Sarah Hicks, Joan Hamory Kremer, Michael Miguel, Edward Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.11.2016)

“...This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming. The program...”

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Large Stakes and Big Mistakes

by ARIELY, DAN GNEEZY, URI LOEWENSTEIN, GEORGE MAZAR, NINA Published in The Review of economic studies (01.04.2009)

“...Workers in a wide variety of jobs are paid based on performance, which is commonly seen as enhancing effort and productivity relative to non-contingent pay...”

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Job Automation Risk, Economic Structure and Trade: a European Perspective

by Foster-McGregor, Neil Nomaler, Önder Verspagen, Bart Published in Research policy (01.09.2021)

“...•International trade increases automation risk in Europe, although moderately so, and especially in the rich European countries.•Trade between European and...”

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Human capital and the wealth of nations

by Manuelli, Rodolfo E Seshadri, Ananth Published in The American economic review (2014)

“...We reevaluate the role of human capital in determining the wealth of nations. We use standard human capital theory to estimate stocks of human capital and...”

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Labor market returns to college major specificity

by Leighton, Margaret Speer, Jamin D Published in European economic review (01.09.2020)

“...This paper develops a new approach to measuring human capital specificity, in the context of college majors, and estimates its labor market return over a...”

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A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010

by Barro, Robert J Lee, Jong Wha Published in Journal of development economics (01.09.2013)

“...Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age...”

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The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement

by Golsteyn, Bart Non, Arjan Zölitz, Ulf Zoelitz Published in The Journal of political economy (01.04.2021)

“...This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing that peer personality influences academic achievement. We exploit random assignment of...”

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Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality

by Barth, Daniel Papageorge, Nicholas W Thom, Kevin Published in The Journal of political economy (01.04.2020)

“...We show that genetic endowments linked to educational attainment strongly and robustly predict wealth at retirement. The estimated relationship is not fully...”

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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

by Chiswick, Barry R Miller, Paul W Published in Labour economics (2008)

“...To answer the question, this paper uses the Over-Required-Under Education technique, a new decomposition methodology and data on adult men from the 2000 US...”

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THE GLOBAL DECLINE OF THE LABOR SHARE

by Karabarbounis, Loukas Neiman, Brent Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.02.2014)

“...The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly...”

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

by Chetty, Raj Friedman, John N Rockoff, Jonah E Published in The American economic review (01.09.2014)

“...Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores (value-added) a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about...”

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The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market

by Autor, David H Dorn, David Published in The American economic review (01.08.2013)

“...We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and 2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We...”

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

by Murphy, Richard Weinhardt, Felix Published in The Review of economic studies (2020)

“...Abstract This article establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school...”

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

by Sorgner, Alina Fritsch, Michael Kritikos, Alexander Published in Small business economics (01.08.2017)

“...Based on large representative German household survey data, we compare incomes of the selfemployed with those of paid employees. We find that the...”

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Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases

by Oechssler, Jörg Roider, Andreas Schmitz, Patrick W Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (2009)

“...We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral...”

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