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International trade integration: a disaggregated approach

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2009

trade barriers for manufacturing industries in European Union countries between 1999 and 2003. We find a large degree of … trade cost heterogeneity across industries. The most important trade barriers are transportation costs and policy factors …

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Concentration and Competition: Evidence from Europe and Implications for Policy

Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022

concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards oligopolistic structure. Estimates of aggregate profitability also show a … competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries. …

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Working from Home in European Countries before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2022

countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic … started. We show that there are significant differences in working from home across countries, industries, and occupations and …

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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015

We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...

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Testing Means-Tested Aid

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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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion

Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - 2016

We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...

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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin; Williams, Kevin - 2017

Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students...

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The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Wößmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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How to Measure Research Efficiency in Higher Education? Research Grants vs. Publication Output

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research … amount of research grants. The present study investigates whether both lead to similar or different assessments of … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …

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