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Contribution Of Education And Innovation To Productivity Among Mexican Regions: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis, Vicente German-Soto, Luis Gutiérrez Flores Feb 2015

Contribution Of Education And Innovation To Productivity Among Mexican Regions: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis, Vicente German-Soto, Luis Gutiérrez Flores

Vicente German-Soto

A dynamic panel data (DPD) model is estimated to assess the contribution of the average schooling years, the education expenditure and the inventive coefficient – as an approximation for innovation – to the increased productivity of the Mexican states. The potential difficulties of endogeneity and serial correlation are controlled by adopting system General Method of Moments (GMM) procedures. The findings are compatible with the theory. The importance of the lags is confirmed and the positive and significant impacts on productivity tend to vary according to the income level and the geographical location of the regions. Innovation is an important contributor …

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Match Quality, Worker Productivity, And Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence From Teachers, C. Kirabo Jackson Sep 2013

Match Quality, Worker Productivity, And Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence From Teachers, C. Kirabo Jackson

C. Kirabo Jackson

I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of, and has two-thirds the explanatory power of teacher quality. Match quality is negatively correlated with turnover, unrelated with exit, and increases with experience. This paper provides the first estimates of worker-firm match quality using output data as opposed to inferring productivity from wages or employment durations. Because teacher wages are essentially unrelated to productivity, this is …

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Una Evaluación De Los Factores Que Estimulan El Patentamiento Regional En México, Vicente German-Soto, Luis Gutiérrez Flores Dec 2012

Una Evaluación De Los Factores Que Estimulan El Patentamiento Regional En México, Vicente German-Soto, Luis Gutiérrez Flores

Vicente German-Soto

Se reporta evidencia de que el número de patentes es resultado del gasto en ciencia y tecnología, la educación, la concentración de industrias de alta tecnología, las economías de aglomeración y las externalidades. La concentración científica y tecnológica en una localidad facilita el flujo de información y refuerza la generación de nuevas patentes. Los resultados confirman la presencia de un efecto claro y positivo de la investigación universitaria y de la concentración de industrias de alta tecnología en el patentamiento. Las externalidades de aglomeración de las universidades son significativas, mientras que la derrama de las industrias de alta tecnología es …

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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, And Course Selection: Evidence From Rule-Based Student Assignments In Trinidad And Tobago, C. Kirabo Jackson Jan 2012

Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, And Course Selection: Evidence From Rule-Based Student Assignments In Trinidad And Tobago, C. Kirabo Jackson

C. Kirabo Jackson

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and estimate the causal effect of attending a single-sex school versus a similar coeducational school. While students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools benefit, most students perform no better at single-sex schools. Girls at single-sex-schools take fewer sciences courses and more traditionally female subjects.

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