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Murphy, Richard; Wyness, Gill - 2016

Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of education aid examine its impact on college enrolment. In this paper, we provide evidence on the causal impact of means-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have...

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Keeping It in the Family: Student to Degree Match

Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luís - 2024

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and enroll in. Using linked administrative data on the population of Portuguese applicants we create a transparent and continuous measure of student-to-degree match employing...

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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education

Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2014

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad after...

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University Dropout Problems and Solutions

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021

Frequent non-completion in optional education can be e¢ cient if dropouts optimally exercise an option rationally foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where enrollment resolves more pronounced individual uncertainty...

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The evolution of public spending on higher education in a democracy

Haupt, Alexander - 2005

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies...

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Market Contestability and Bribe Solicitations: Evidence Across Stages of Firms' Operations

Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Saunoris, James W. - 2018

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

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Perception vs. Experience : Explaining Differences in Corruption Measures Using Microdata

Gutmann, Jerg - 2020

explained by individuals' first-hand experience of corruption. Some of these biases may force us to reevaluate results of …Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …

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Money Laundering and Corruption : Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Barone, Raffaella - 2019

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

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A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy

Ash, Elliott; Galletta, Sergio; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021

to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …

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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy: Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...

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