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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
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association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants' demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
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analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …
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This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470264
business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
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Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
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