Browsing Economics and Business Working Papers Series by Subject "Ability"

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Gender specialization in households: An empirical analysis

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi (2007-01-01)

This paper studies the effect of parental education on the educational attainment of children in the US for cohorts born after 1910. Importantly, we allow for cohort-specific differences by gender. Our estimates show ...
The distribution of talent across contests

Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc (2012-01-01)

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays ...
The organization of research corporations and researcher ability

Cassiman, Bruno (1998-08-01)

This paper analyzes the formation of Research Corporations as an alternative governance structure for performing R&D compared to pursuing in-house R&D projects. Research Corporations are private for-profit research ...

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