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Educational inputs and economic development in end-of-nineteenth-century Prussia
Schueler, Ruth - 2016
Which role did educational investments play for economic development? Using data on schooling quantity and quality provided by the first and second Prussian census on primary schools and two measures capturing the high and the low end of the income distribution allows applying a value-added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586868
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Education Economics from a Historical Perspective
Schüler, Ruth Maria - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815682
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Educational inputs and economic development in end-of-nineteenth-century Prussia
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
Which role did educational investments play for economic development? Using data on schooling quantity and quality provided by the first and second Prussian census on primary schools and two measures capturing the high and the low end of the income distribution allows applying a value-added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557887
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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Student Loans Repayment and Recovery : International Comparisons
Shen, Hua; Ziderman, Adrian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Student loans schemes are in operation in more than seventy countries around the world.Most loans schemes benefit from sizeable built-in government subsidies and, in addition, aresubject to repayment default and administrative costs that are not passed on to studentborrowers. We probe two issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859511
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Competition between state universities
Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011313
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Performance-related funding of universities : does more competition lead to grade inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- Grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580237
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Persistent inefficiency in the higher education sector : evidence from Germany
Gralka, Sabine - 2016
term and residual. This implies that increasing efficiency requires a comprehensive change of the university structure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541292
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Student and graduate migration and its effect on the financing of higher education
Haussen, Tina; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014
The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404374
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Performance-related funding of universities : does more competition lead to grade inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516880