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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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information on the public-private character of both operation and funding of each tested school. Across countries, public …
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International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment data, we construct country-level measures of teacher...
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School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify … conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level dominates signaling at the single asset level. In particular, when banks … have better information about loan types on their books, and some commitment power to sales, can profit by pooling assets …
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