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    ENTREPRENEURIAL POTENTIAL IN ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS COURSES - WHY WORRY NOW?
    ( 2008) Aurora Teixeira
    In this paper we analyze the magnitude of this propensity in engineering and economics/business courses. The reason for such focus is that traditionally these courses are viewed as the ones concentrating individuals that are more likely to create new ventures. The empirical results, based on a large-scale survey of 2430 final-year students, reveal that no statistical difference exists in entrepreneurial potential of economics/business and engineering students, and that these two latter groups have lower entrepreneurial potential than students from other courses. This result proves to be quite unfortunate given the focus that previous studies have placed on these two majors, and the fact that a substantial part of entrepreneurial education is undertaken in business and engineering schools.
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    HUMAN CAPITAL, TRADE AND LONG-RUN PRODUCTIVITY. TESTING THE TECHNOLOGICAL
    ( 2007) Natércia Fortuna ; Aurora Teixeira
    An important characteristic of the role of foreign trade in the technological catch-up of countries is the complementary nature of technological change and human capital formation. Education is likely to have a crucial impact on total factor productivity because it determines the capacity of an economy to adopt and to implement efficiently technology from abroad. However, the role of human capital as a pre requisite for technology absorption although theoretically acknowledged has been empirically neglected. Empirical studies in this domain do not clearly test the mechanisms through which trade affects total factor productivity of a given country. Using cointegration techniques, we demonstrate that the interaction between human capital and machinery imports is the most critical determinant of Portuguese long-run total factor productivity.
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    A review essay on child well-being measurement: uncovering the paths for future research.
    ( 2011) Liliana Fernandes ; Américo Mendes ; Aurora Teixeira
    The research on indicators on the state of child well-being is a growing field and one that has experienced several changes through time. Due to the growing supply of data on children, and in order to facilitate conclusions and tracking trends, researchers have been led to develop child well-being summary indexes. Several proposals have already been presented. In the present work, we critically review the most prominent summary child well-being indexes recently constructed, the Index of Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States, the Child Well-being Index for the European Union, the Microdata Child Well-Being Index, and the Deprivation Index. The examination is carried out according to the contributions and innovations the indexes have brought to the field. A critical assessment of the methods used in the construction of the indexes is made and their main limitations identified. Accordingly, some future lines of research to improve child well-being measurement through summary indexes are put forward.