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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries’ political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy’s...
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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-driven Aid less Effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - CESifo - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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Competition between State Universities
Grazzini, Lisa - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching. By considering a set-up where two state universities behave strategically, we model their interaction with potential students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128543
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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment
Lochner, Lance - 2013
Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071390
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The Evolution of Public Spending on Higher Education in a Democracy
Haupt, Alexander - 2006
This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an … future demand for education. This demand shift implies that the initial subsidy per student becomes too expensive to be … politically sustainable. Despite a voters' backlash that curbs education subsidies, overall enrolments continue to rise. But the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783323
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Information and Preferences for Public Spending : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2016
specific education reforms. Preferences on spending across education levels are also malleable to information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987358
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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education
Haussen, Tina - 2015
The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students … the financing of higher education for 22 OECD countries for the period of 2000 to 2011. Based on fixed effects estimations …
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary …
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Who is Afraid of School Choice?
Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316045
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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education
Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2014
education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country’s labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign … mobility affects the governmental decision about the financial regime of higher education based on aggregated data of 22 OECD … financing share of higher education funding depends on a country’s tax revenue, its GDP and the share of students enrolled in …
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