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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning … individual-level information on student achievement and country-level measures of teacher subject knowledge and didactic skills … knowledge has a large positive effect on student achievement, whereas the effect of didactic skills is comparatively small and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255642
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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475960
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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability...
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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023
There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new national highways on ground water levels in a small...
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The political economy of industrial policy
Juhász, Réka; Lane, Nathan - 2024
We examine the ways in which political realities shape industrial policy through the lens of modern political economy. We consider two broad “governance constraints”: i) the political forces that shape how industrial policy is chosen and ii) the ways in which state capacity affects...
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The ability gradient in bunching
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...
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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study
Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020
-emotional skills we find that exposure during pre-school years has a quantitatively important negative effect on socio-emotional skills … among toddlers and negatively affects cognitive and social skills after age three. The estimated impact on cognitive … development is consistent with measures of cognitive skills based on school-based tests. …
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
workforce and fully benefiting from technology adoption. We show that digital technology adoption shifted the demand for skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774966
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Market integration, wage concentration, and the cost and volume of traded machines
Edwards, Terence Huw; Perroni, Carlo - 2014
We investigate the theoretical relationship between wage concentration and international market integration. Access to imported varieties lowers the cost of intermediate inputs (“machines”) used to carry out production tasks, causing workers with different comparative abilities to be sorted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412753