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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …

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Voting on labour-market integration and education policy when citizens differ in mobility and ability

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2009

We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...

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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

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A Note on Detecting Dividing Lines in Turnout : Spatial Dependence and Heterogeneity in the 2012 US Presidential Election

Fiorino, Nadia - 2020

US voters have been moving apart in the last twenty years. This paper analyzes how their voting participation has partitioned by looking at US counties in the 2012 Presidential elections. To tackle this question, we propose a methodology that jointly addresses spatial autocorrelation of the...

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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Widgren, Mika - 2021

This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....

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Optimal education policies and comparative advantage

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Kneller, Richard Anthony; Riezman, … - 2009

We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the rest of the world. Lastly, the government...

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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity

Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022

This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...

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Prioritarianism in Education

Ooghe, Erwin - 2021

I first summarize and critically discuss the different normative views that are operational in the academic literature on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and compare it to utilitarians and Rawlsians. I finish with...

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Skill Formation, Temporary Disadvantage and Elite Education

Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2021

Elite skills have become crucial in today’s superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skillformation model where we show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This “underdog-incentive effect” implies that “educated...

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