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's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … are considered: (1) greater congestion in public schools; (2) a lower average tax base for education funding; (3) reduced … wages for low-skilled workers and so more dependence by low-skilled locals on public education; (4) a greater skill premium …
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We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
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We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if … other people receiving education and increases the quasi rents on their own human capital. It is surprising that this rather …
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public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public …The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In … of education. In this study, we ask why different societies make different choices regarding the mix of private and …
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education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using …-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
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exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …
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the role of education. Understanding the factors that shape attitudes towards peace is important in order to be successful … of education. While some authors have linked violent and extreme positions to ignorance and to low market opportunities …, others have found that education is positively correlated with being a member of a terrorist group. To better understand the …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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