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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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Efficiency and Equity of European Education and Training Policies
Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods : Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy - 2017
neighborhood are more orderly and their buildings have larger footprint areas and are more likely to have multiple stories, as well …
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Neighborhood Racial Characteristics, Credit History, and Bankcard Credit in Indian Country
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2017
, we find that residing in a predominantly American Indian neighborhood is ceteris paribus associated with lower awarded … bankcard credit limits than residing in a neighborhood where the share of American Indian residents is low. We further find … than racial composition of the consumer's neighborhood, and that the awarded bankcard credit limits do not depend on the …
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Distinctively Different : A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Holman, Nancy - 2021
We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We...
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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow : The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
Costa-Font, Joan - 2011
The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood and/or organ donation has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss (1970) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to...
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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
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Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting : Evidence from European Multinationals
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2012
This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
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On Creditor Seniority and Sovereign Bond Prices in Europe
Steinkamp, Sven - 2013
The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental …
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