... year of college. This assumption implies a linear
relationship between the log of earnings andthe number of years of education.
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production of new knowledge. There is no constraint onthe range of θ. If past
knowledge offers the necessary foundation upon which to discover ... education and offer predictions as to the implications of education
policy changes on macroeconomic performance. Some empirical analyses ofthe growth
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explaining shifts in the shape ofthe demand curve ofthe type ... the estimated standard deviations (across consumers) ofthe brand
specific constants (see Eq. 10). These are usually more than half the size ofthe means
of the brand specific constants.
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globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy
through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, the spread of
technology, ...
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The purpose of this chapter is to show the impacts that corruption has onthe economic and
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can arise in that context. Much of that literature deals with the bias ofthe fixed effects
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