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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis

Del Boca, Daniela - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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Education Policies and Migration Across European Countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...

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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries

Koopmans, Ruud - 2014

. Moreover, we are able to address the question to what extend the relationship of perceived diversity and neighborhood social … related to neighborhood social cohesion in more inclusive policy contexts. Our results provide partial support for this … hypothesis as perceived diversity has a significantly stronger negative impact on neighborhood cohesion in Germany. …

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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Bergström, Lina - 2010

Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...

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Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood

Boschman, Sanne - 2014

Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received little attention so far is that some residents will...

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Medieval matching markets

Börner, Lars; Quint, Daniel - 2010

This paper studies the market microstructure of pre-industrial Europe. In particular we investigate the institution of … merchant towns in Central and Western Europe from the late 13th to the end of the 17th century. We show that towns implemented …