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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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Nation building : the role of central spending in education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form "loyal citizens" and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected participation at general elections and votes for...

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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014

cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel …

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree : location of start-ups relative to incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural … analyze the relative importance of geographically bounded location factors based on data from 103 manufacturing industries … vary in their pattern of new firm location. In East Germany, only 5 percent of the industries reveal start-up localization …

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Education policy and mobility : some basic results

Hange, Ulrich - 2003

This paper analyzes regional public education policy in the presence of mobile workers. Labor market integration leads to fiscal competition, shifting the whole burden of taxation to immobile workers. In the case of mobile skilled workers, this results in income inequalities and inefficient low...

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Collective choice and individual action : education policy and social mobility in England

Jennings, Colin C. - 2015

It is recognised that expressive preferences may play a major role in determining voting decisions because the low probability of being decisive in elections undermines standard instrumental reasoning. Expressive and instrumental preferences may deviate and in electoral settings it is more...

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How to promote R&D-based growth? : public education expenditure on scientists and engineers versus R&D subsidies

Grossmann, Volker - 2004

Empirical evidence suggests that positive externalities from R&D exceed negative ones. According to conventional wisdom, this calls for R&D subsidies. This paper develops a quality-ladder growth model with overlapping generations which evaluates the positive and normative implications of R&D...

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Public opinion on education policy in Germany

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2017

To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education …

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Safeguarding quality of higher education in the Netherlands : closing the gap between policy and research

Hartog, Joop - 2016 - This draft: December 23 2015

I will outline the institutional structure of monitoring and improving the quality of higher education in The Netherlands. After critical assessment of recent educational policies a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry proclaimed the rule of Evidence Based Interventions Only. From discussion and...

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The extent and consequences of teacher biases against immigrants

Sahlström, Ellen; Silliman, Mikko - 2024

We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...

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