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The Role of Colleges within the Higher Education Sector

Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2018

Over the past decades the college sectors in the higher education systems of many Western countries have expanded their capacities massively. This happened even though colleges have been at a competitive disadvantage with universities which are publicly subsidized, while colleges must...

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New Region, New Chances : Does Moving Regionally for University Shape Later Job Mobility?

Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility but is … mobility across labour market regions. The data permit a novel identification strategy that uses the distance to university as … agglomeration in a university graduate survey. We find that early mobility leads to a sizable increase in later labour mobility …

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The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling During the Industrial Revolution : Evidence from 19th Century France

Franck, Raphael - 2023

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of …

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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity : Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

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Social Distancing and the Economic Impact of Covid-19 in the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2020

This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We ﬁnd that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...

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Competition in Higher Education : A Survey

Kaganovich, Michael - 2020

The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...

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