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2014-010: Why are women less democratic than men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Maty Konte

2014-009: Gender difference in support for democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do social institutions matter?

Maty Konte

2014-008: School choice, segregation, and forced school closure

K. de Witte and Cheng Boon Ong

2014-007: Firms' adoption of international standards: Evidence from the Ethiopian floriculture sector

Mulu Gebreeyesus

2014-006: Poor trends: The pace of poverty reduction after the Millennium Development Agenda

D.P.I. de Crombrugghe, Adam Szirmai and Richard Bluhm

2014-005: Path-breaking directions of nanotechnology-based chemotherapy and molecular cancer therapy

Mario Coccia and Lili Wang

2014-004: Migration, remittances and household welfare in Ethiopia

Lisa Andersson

2014-003: User innovators and their influence on innovation activities of firms in Finland

Fred Gault, J. Kuusisto and M. Niemi

2014-002: Diverse and uneven pathways towards transition to low carbon development: The case of diffusion of solar PV technology in China

Michiko Iizuka

2014-001: The medium-term effect of R&D on firm growth

Marco Capasso, Tania Treibich and Bart Verspagen

2013-071: Transnationalism and integration: Complements or Substitutes?

Bram Dekker and Melissa Siegel

2013-070: Institutions and economic growth: Summary and synthesis

Adam Szirmai

2013-069: Do weak institutions prolong crises?: On the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps

Richard Bluhm, Crombrugghe D.P.I. de and Adam Szirmai

2013-068: Social Media and Migration Research

E. McGregor and Melissa Siegel

2013-067: Determinants of international mobility decision: the case‐study of India

Metka Hercog and Laar M. van de

2013-066: What's the best place for me? Location-choice for S&E students in India

Metka Hercog and Mindel Van de Laar

2013-065: Bringing migration into the post‐2015 agenda: notes, reflections and policy directions

Skeldon R.

2013-064: The influence of ethnic segregation and school mobility in primary education on high school dropout: evidence from regression discontinuity at a contextual tipping point

Cheng Boon Ong and Kristof De Witte

2013-063: Estimation of rates of return of social protection instruments. Making the case for non-contributory social transfers in Cambodia

Andrés Mideros, Franziska Gassmann and Pierre Mohnen

2013-062: Promoting productive employment in Sub‐Saharan Africa: a review of the literature

Adam Szirmai, Mulu Gebreeyesus, Francesca Guadagno and Bart Verspagen

2013-061: Ethnic segregation and heterogeneous preferences of homeowners for housing and neighbourhood characteristics: evidence from the Netherlands

Cheng Boon Ong and Kristof De Witte

2013-060: Doing R&D in a closed or open mode: dynamics and impacts on productivity

Rosa J. and Pierre Mohnen

2013-059: The impact of the 2009 value added tax reform on enterprise investment and employment ‐ Empirical analysis based on Chinese tax survey data

Wang D.

2013-058: Government support, innovation and productivity in the Haidian (Beijing) District

Can Huang, Wu Y., Pierre Mohnen and Zhao Y.

2013-057: Innovation and survival of new firms in Chinese manufacturing, 2000-2006

Zhang M. and Pierre Mohnen

2013-056: Economic development, growth, institutions and geography

Samyukta Bhupatiraju and Bart Verspagen

2013-055: Determinants of firms' investment behaviour: a multilevel approach

Kristine Farla

2013-054: Institutions, foreign direct investment, and domestic investment: crowding out or crowding in?

Kristine Farla, Crombrugghe D.P.I. de and Bart Verspagen

2013-053: The State of State Capacity: a review of concepts, evidence and measures

Cingolani L

2013-052: Minding Weber more than ever? The impacts of state capacity and bureaucratic autonomy on development goals

Cingolani L, Kaj Thomsson and Crombrugghe D.P.I. de

2013-051: The pace of poverty reduction - A fractional response approach

Richard Bluhm, Crombrugghe D.P.I. de and Adam Szirmai

2013-050: Transnational corruption and innovation in transition economies

Alexis Habiyaremye and Wladimir Raymond

2013-049: Parental leave within the broader work‐family trajectory: What can we learn from sequence analysis?

Zhelyazkova N.

2013-048: Beyond technological catch‐up: An empirical investigation of further innovative capability accumulation outcomes in latecomer firms with evidence from Brazil

Paulo Figueiredo

2013-047: Switching off or switching source: energy consumption and household

Franziska Gassmann and Raquel Tsukada

2013-046: Exploring the paradox of competence‐creating subsidiaries: balancing bandwidth and dispersion in MNEs

Rajneesh Narula

2013-045: Male use of parental leave in Luxembourg: empirical analysis of administrative records

Zhelyazkova N.

2013-044: Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions

Lili Wang, Huub Meijers and Adam Szirmai

2013-043: The impact of migration on children left behind in Moldova

Franziska Gassmann, Melissa Siegel, Michaella Vanore and Waidler J.

2013-042: The growth of outward FDI and the competitiveness: the case of India

Rajneesh Narula and Prasad T.

2013-041: Designing an optimal 'tech fix' path to global climate stability: directed R&D and embodied technical change in a multi‐phase framework

Adriaan van Zon and Paul David

2013-040: Self-organization of knowledge economies

François Lafond

2013-039: How unemployment insurance savings accounts affect employment duration: evidence from Chile

Nagler P.

2013-038: The Influence of Vulnerability on Migration Intentions in Afghanistan

Loschman C. and Melissa Siegel

2013-037: The links between economic integration and remittances behaviour of migrants in the Netherlands

Ozge Bilgili

2013-036: Technological capability building in MNE-Related social businesses of less developed countries: the experience of Grameen-Danone foods in Bangladesh

Peerally J.A. and Paulo Figueiredo

2013-035: The End of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) and the Heterogeneous Performance of Quota-Constrained Countries

Mulu Gebreeyesus

2013-034: Foreign direct investment as a driver of industrial development: why is there so little evidence?

Rajneesh Narula

2013-033: Using a 'Systems' Perspective to Explain the Limits of 'New' Multinational Enterprises: the role of 'members-only' location advantages

Rajneesh Narula

2013-032: How big is the impact of infrastructure on trade? Evidence from meta-analysis

Mehmet Celbis, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot