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We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...
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uptake. It goes beyond existing research by not only focusing on individual choices but also on university characteristics …, like university segregation, excellence and student support. In addition, the study is novel in comparing rich graduate … survey and administrative data merged with university level ETER data across four countries. Multilevel regression results …
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unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
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unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
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State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...
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Many countries operate pronounced fiscal equalization schemes that shift tax revenue across jurisdictions. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, costly trade and labor mobility to carve out the aggregate implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for...
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Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not … leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …
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We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …
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between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to … reduce tax revenues at the expense of research. -- student mobility ; worker mobility ; university competition ; government …
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