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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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Pound for pound export diversification

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2020

We propose a short-run model of the extensive margin of trade and deploy it to distinguish and quantify domestic and cross-border margins. Our empirical focus is on the domestic extensive margin of trade (domestic distribution of a product) and its importance for quantifying policy and...

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Short run gravity

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2017

Short run gravity is a geometric weighted average of long run gravity and bilateral capacity. The model features (i) joint trade costs endogenous to bilateral volumes, (ii) long run gravity as a limiting case of effcient investment in bilateral capacities, (iii) a structural ratio of short run...

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Schooling resources, educational institutions and student perfomance : the international evidence

Woessmann, Ludger - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 65 (2003) 2, pp. 117-170

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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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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022

We propose a short-run theory of the extensive margins of trade, comprising the standard international extensive margin …

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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2006

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...

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