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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … rate of 0.8%; doubling household expenditure in Uganda increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …
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Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works
Engerman, Stanley; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
The Erie Canal was a mammoth public works project undertaken largely because the scope of the investment was beyond what a private firm could manage during the early 19th century. As with most public works, there were ample opportunities for public officials to realize private gains from the...
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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in promoting economic well-being, with a particular focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580139
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Estimating the Impact of Means-tested Subsidies under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Dupas, Pascaline; Kanaya, Shin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Regular use of effective health-products such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) by a household benefits its neighbors by (a) reducing chances of infection and (b) raising awareness about product-effectiveness, thereby increasing product-use. Due to their potential social benefits and...
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Decentralization in Developing Economies
Singhal, Monica; Gadenne, Lucie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
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State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; García-Jimeno, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity using the network of Colombian municipalities. We model the determination of local and national state capacity as a network game in which each municipality, anticipating the choices and spillovers created by other municipalities...
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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887109
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A Direct Test of the "Explanation" for Incomplete Stratification in Vertical Sorting Models
Smith, V. Kerry; Fishman, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper uses the 2011 Phoenix Area Social Survey to evaluate the plausibility of the assumptions made with pure characteristics or vertical sorting models to rationalize incomplete stratification of households across local communities by income. The analysis with a well-recognized index of...
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Do Insurers Risk-Select Against Each Other? Evidence from Medicaid and Implications for Health Reform
Kuziemko, Ilyana; Meckel, Katherine; Rossin-Slater, Maya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Increasingly in U.S. public insurance programs, the state finances and regulates competing, capitated private health plans but does not itself directly insure beneficiaries through a public fee-for-service (FFS) plan. We develop a simple model of risk-selection in such settings. Capitation...
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