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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474691
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256208
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541111
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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658035
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774936
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The Brexit conundrum worsens the UK's relationship with the European Union
Ryan, John T. - 2019
Ireland, as debate grows around the prospect of a united Ireland inside the EU. UK politics is in turmoil and in a chronic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065056
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How exporters grow
Fitzgerald, Doireann; Haller, Stefanie; Yedid-Levi, Yaniv - 2020
We show that in successful episodes of export market entry, there are statistically and economically significant post-entry dynamics of quantities, but no post-entry dynamics of markups. This suggests that shifts in demand play an important role in successful entry, but that firms do not use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158137
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Publication performance vs. influence : on the questionable value of quality weighted publication rankings
Haucap, Justus; Thomas, Tobias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017
In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be...
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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output
Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925969
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Privatisation in Ireland
Barrett, Sean D. - 2004
Public enterprises in Ireland were offshoots of political nationalism. They were part of a protectionist economic … share of public enterprises in total employment has fallen by almost two-thirds to 2.7 percent. Ireland has experienced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402459