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Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures

Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2010

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...

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Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Böhm, Sebastian - 2014

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive public expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth...

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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence

Campos, Nauro F. - 2018

This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...

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Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I find that local education finance yields higher...

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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source

Hanousek, Jan - 2008

Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel - 2008

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021

of the government's budget constraint, we find strong evidence to support these predictions under different estimation …

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Globalization, Inequality, and Redistribution : Theory and Evidence

Gozgor, Giray - 2015

redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and … redistribution in a panel data set of 140 countries for the period from 1970 to 2012. It finds that both inequality and …

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

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