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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
education expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of schools using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first …. We also show that these gains lead to no adverse effects across education types but that male students benefited more … from educational decentralization closing, for the Swiss case, the gender education gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123882
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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854522
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321839
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680759
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365649
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School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes
Marks, Gary; Ainley, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999
Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a problematic early start in the labor market can be difficult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971333
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Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.
Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977266
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Estimation of Class-Size Effects, Using 'Maimonides' Rule': The Case of French Junior High Schools
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Mahjoub, Mohamed Badrane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
enrollment in each year, in our exceptional data set. We control for father occupation, mother education and other variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123884
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123987
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Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136728