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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In this paper, we use original data from Albania on mobility intentions and elicited risk aversion to provide causal estimates on this relationship. Our identification strategy relies...
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We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to migrate, our study was transformed into a natural...
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conducive business regulations amplify the positive impact on firm creation of better education and reduced skill mismatches. To … escape a low-productivity trap, policymakers should thus create a pro-business framework and a wellfunctioning education …
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Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate …,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the issue of education vouchers and direct subsidies to private … schools. We find that successful attempts to move towards a more privatized education system rest mainly on pure income …
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Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we … discuss three different measures of education, and consider their relationship to the distribution of income as measured by …-school enrolment, (b) public expenditure on education relative to national income and (c) expected years of schooling for girls. We …
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This paper offers an explanation for the widespread phenomenon of uniform public schooling, which is viewed here as a way for the government to precommit itself to restraints on future income redistribution. Such precommitment is likely to enhance accumulation of human capital, to bolster...
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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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