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South-rest of Brasil inter-regional system: income generation and regional inter dependency.
Filho, Sesso; Antonio, Umberto; Guilhoto, Joaquim José … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The objective of this research was to examine the capacity of sectors to generate income of the economy and the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107864
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Inter-regional sistem south-rest of Brazil: income generation and regional interdependence
Filho, Sesso; Antonio, Umberto; Guilhoto, Joaquim José … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The objective of this research was to examine the capacity of sectors to generate income of the economy and the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113731
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Income and regional interdependence among the southern states of Brazil and the rest of the country
Filho, Sesso; Antonio, Umberto; Moretto, Antonio Carlos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The purpose of the study was to analyze the capacity for sector income generation of the inter-regional input …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113943
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Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland
Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
characteristics of the served population (such as average income per capita). Busing is found to have negative effect on performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836355
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Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools in six countries. A reanalysis of three PISA data sets
Dronkers, J; Avram, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In international comparative studies on academic achievement, the distinction between private government-dependent schools and private-independent schools has been proven particularly important for understanding the differences in the effectiveness of the private and public school sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541486
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Educational Achievement of Immigrant Children in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
Levels, Mark; Dronkers, Jaap Dronkers; Kraaykamp, Gerbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
immigrant communities can explain differences in the educational achievement of immigrant children. Using data from the 2003 …, origin countries and communities also affect the educational performance of immigrant children. We show that the better … educational performance of immigrant children in traditional immigrant receiving countries can be explained by strict immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529208
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406175
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland
Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790057