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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
cognitive skills are significantly related to differences in women's access to high-skilled occupations outside teaching and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005432
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Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Role of Member States and the European Commission
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Veugelers, Reinhilde - CESifo - 2007
This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of …, researchers and teachers and open up national funding schemes. The EU should take more initiatives to fund research through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094228
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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
In this paper we argue that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that … research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds is One
Jacobs, Bas - 2010
This paper develops a Mirrlees (1971) framework with heterogeneous agents to analyze optimal redistributive taxes, optimal provision of public goods and the marginal cost of public funds (MCF). Standard MCF measures are shown to suffer from three defects: i) The MCF for the (non-individualized)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135910
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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136696
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Public Providers, Versus Private Providers, of Public Goods : A General Equilibrium Study of the Role of the State
Economides, George - 2011
This paper studies the difference between public production and public finance of public goods in a dynamic general equilibrium setup. By public finance, we mean that the public good is produced by private providers with the government financing their costs. When the model is calibrated to match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123836
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Precommitted Government Spending and Partisan Politics
Bohn, Henning - 2011
This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a “stubborn liberal” policy maker can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124681
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Are User Fees Really Regressive?
Economides, George - 2012
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103882
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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform
Bohlmark, Anders - 2012
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104178
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...
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