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voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to …, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
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voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to …, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051078
This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a …, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we can control for a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820295
This paper looks at the impact of education on household economic welfare in Sri Lanka over twenty years from 1985 to … the incremental value to household welfare shows a distinct jump for an extra year of education at levels where important … national examinations are completed.  Moreover, higher quantiles systematically enjoy greater incremental welfare to education …
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The rapid rise in schooling in developing countries in recent decades has been dramatic. However, many cross-country regression analyses of the impact of schooling on economic growth find low and insignificant coefficients. This empirical `puzzle` contrasts with theoretical arguments that...
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An intertemporal voting model is examined where, at each date, there is a pairwise majority vote between the existing … chosen state and some other state, chosen randomly. Intertemporal voting simplifies the strategic issues and the agenda … to admit probabilistic voting allows a general existence result to be proved. The analysis leads to the development of a …
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This paper develops an infinite-horizon, political agency model with a continuum of political districts, in which incumbent politicians can improve their re-election probability by attracting swing voters in key states through strategic trade protection. A unique equilibrium is shown to exist...
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We develop a model of endogenous skill-biased technical change in developing countries.  The model reconciles wildly dispersed existing estimates of the elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers.  It also produces an estimating equation for the elasticity, which allow...
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This paper provides an overview of school education in India. Firstly, it places India`s educational achievements in … achievement levels, school resources and teacher inputs. The substantial silver lining in the cloud of Indian Education is that … them which teacher unions have fought hard to secure. Lastly, the paper discusses some major public education initiatives …
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Ethiopia where participation in formal education is extremely poor. An aspect of both problems is late entry to primary school …, the importance of parental and neighbourhood education are considered. We find that the education of both parents is … important to enrolment and starting time. Furthermore, education of women in the neighbourhood increases the probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604855