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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
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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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decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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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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various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the …
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Fossil fuels have shaped the European economy since the industrial revolution. We use new long-run panel data to analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of...
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present …
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