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Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - CESifo - 2014

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths’ ideology. To measure … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

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Institutional Reform and Depositors' Portfolio Choice - Evidence from Censored Quantile Regressions

Berlemann, Michael; Luik, Marc-André - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we study the effect of institutional reform on the decision to hold risky assets at the extensive and the intensive margin. We therefore make use of the natural experiment of German Division and Reunification and, based on savings bank customer data from German savings banks, study...

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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism: Evidence from East and West Germany

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario - CESifo - 2012

This paper investigates the influence of the political regime on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption. We use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. Relying on household data that are...

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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - CESifo - 2013

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of...

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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement

Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael - CESifo - 2013

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Tax Competition, Relative Performance and Policy Imitation

Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2009

Rather than about absolute payoffs, governments in fiscal competition often seem to care about their performance relative to other governments. Moreover, they often appear to mimic policies observed elsewhere. We study such behaviour in a tax competition game with mobile capital à la...

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Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - CESifo - 2013

By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...

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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy: Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013

In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...

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The Effect of Direct Democracy on Income Redistribution: Evidence for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Fischer, Justina A.V.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2006

There is an intensive dispute in political economics about the impact of institutions on income redistribution. While the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on redistribution has attracted much less attention....

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