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Measuring persistence of the world population : a fractional integration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log …

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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

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Persistence in the market risk premium : evidence across countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2020

This paper provides evidence on the degree of persistence of one of the key components of the CAPM, namely the market risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany and Japan, and for robustness purposes considers...

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Atmospheric pollution in 10 US cities : trends and persistence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2025

This paper analyses trends and persistence in atmospheric pollution in ten US cities over the period from January 2014 to January 2024 using fractional integration methods. The results support the hypothesis of long memory and mean reversion in atmospheric pollution in all cities examined. They...

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Familiärer Hintergrund, Schulsystem und Schülerleistungen im internationalen Vergleich

Woessmann, Ludger - In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte : APuZ 53 (2003) 21/22, pp. 33-38

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Computers and student learning : bivariate and multivariate evidence on the availability and use of computers at home and at school

Fuchs, Thomas (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2004

We estimate the relationship between students ̕educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between student achievement and the availability of computers...

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The effect heterogeneity of central exams : evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS-Repeat and PISA

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2004

This paper uses extensive student-level micro databases of three international student achievement tests to estimate heterogeneity in the effect of external exit exams on student performance along three dimensions. First, quantile regressions show that the effect tends to increase with student...

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Education policy and equality of opportunity

Schütz, Gabriela (contributor); … - 2005

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...

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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor); … - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

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