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The role of fees in foreign education : evidence from Italy

Beine, Michel; Delogu, Marco; Ragot, Lionel - In: Journal of economic geography 20 (2020) 2, pp. 571-600

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Service Delivery and Corruption in Public Services: How Does History Matter?

Pandey, Priyanka - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 3, pp. 190-204

This paper provides microlevel evidence of how past institutions impact present economic outcomes. It looks at the impact of colonial land tenure institutions on local governance and education outcomes in northern India. Outcomes are worse in villages that belong to areas with a history of...

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Pricing Neighborhoods

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...

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Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)

Hoxby, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Rothstein has produced two comments, Rothstein (2003) and Rothstein (2004), on Hoxby "Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers," American Economic Review, 2000. In this paper, I discuss every claim of any importance in the comments. I show that every claim is wrong. I...

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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons

Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between education expenditure decentralization and the...

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Choice, Competition, and Pupil Achievement

Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 4, pp. 912-947

Choice and competition in education have recently found growing support from both policymakers and academics. Yet evidence on the actual benefits of market-orientated reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, although the economic rationale for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there...

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"Equity and Educational Performance"

Mizala, Alejandra; Romaguera, Pilar - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2002)

In this paper, we review the main issues under discussion in the field of economics of education, with a special focus on Latin America. We seek to organize the debate about educational policies by showing how these policies respond to different models based on different assumptions and...

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Improving Educational Outcomes in Slovenia

Eris, Mehmet - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Overall, the education system fares well by international comparison. Slovenia has one of the highest shares of the population aged 25 to 64 to have completed at least upper secondary education, and ranks high in international educational achievement tests. Nevertheless, in some areas, reforms...

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Raising Education Outcomes in Greece

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Despite progress over the past decades, Greece?s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education. Resources devoted to education are also modest....

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Environmental policy and lobbying in small open economies

Persson, Lars - In: Resource and Energy Economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 24-35

and international environmental policies. International environmental policies are here characterized as pollution taxes … determined in a negotiation between two countries. The optimal pollution taxes are characterized and comparative statics are … carried out to increase the understanding of mechanisms underlying pollution taxes in the specified setup. It is found, among …

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