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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay...
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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010
The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462376
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Law, human capital and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy
Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2017 - This version: November 6, 2017
In this paper, we study how the birth of the first universities in Italy affected the emergence of the Italian free cities-states (the commune) in the period 1000-1300 a.d. Exploiting a panel dataset of 121 cities, we show that after the foundation of a new university the distance between each...
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Future European alliance : Europe as a flexible democracy
Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
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Trends in economic research: an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …
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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011
Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278374
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups
Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
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