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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo - 2015

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on survey data that needs not assume that voters are guided by pecuniary motives alone. We find that most democracies implement the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution...

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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2021

We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...

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Terrorism Prevention and Electoral Accountability

Dragu, Tiberiu; Polborn, Mattias - 2021

How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democracy? We analyze the connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal model of an interaction between a government, a...

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The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation

Habla, Wolfgang - 2016

In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...

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Majority Vote on Educational Standards

Schwager, Robert - 2018

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...

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Financing Higher Education and Labor Mobility

Demange, Gabrielle - 2008

This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...

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Education : Optimal Choice and Efficient Policy

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2015

The research on earnings determination is based on the Mincer-Becker assumption that individuals decide on schooling by maximizing income. This paper offers an alternative and less restrictive approach based on utility maximization. Using this approach, we analyze the efficiency of education...

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Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient...

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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School

Cohn, Alain - 2017

cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a … common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three types of school misconduct: (i) disruptiveness in class, (ii) homework … school, suggesting that experimental measures of cheating generalize to rule violating behaviour in naturally occurring …

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