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La distinction reloaded : returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany

Krenz, Astrid - 2010

The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children's academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary...

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Services sectors' agglomeration and its interdependence with industrial agglomeration in the European Union

Krenz, Astrid - 2010

Services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union, its development over time, its driving factors and dynamic tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 European countries covering 22 services sectors over...

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Industrial localization and countries' specialization in the European Union : an empirical investigation

Krenz, Astrid; Rübel, Gerhard - 2010

The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the development of Industrial Localization and Countries' Specialization Patterns in the European Union, to explain the driving forces behind and to find out dynamic tendencies. We extend existing research work by using a broader data set,...

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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...

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Are "new" donors different? : comparing the allocation of bilateral aid between non-DAC and DAC donor

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2010

Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...

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Democracy and international trade : differential effects from a panel quantile regression framework

Abeliansky, Ana; Krenz, Astrid - 2015

international trade. With a new estimation strategy, we analyze this relationship taking a look at the distribution of countries … ́trading activity. Using a panel quantile estimation framework from Powell (2014), we find a stronger relationship at the lower … variables estimation. Our results demonstrate that the effect of democracy on trade is underestimated using Ordinary Least …

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Cross-country heterogeneity and endogeneity bias in life satisfaction estimations - macro- and micro-level evidence for advanced, developing and transition countries

Krenz, Astrid - 2013

The past literature found evidence for the presence of endogeneity issues due to individuals' heterogeneity and omitted time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee (2010)). The aim of the present contribution is to put...

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Do political institutions influence international trade? : measurement of institutions and the Long-Run effects

Krenz, Astrid - 2016

The past literature presents ambiguous evidence about the bidirectional and causal influences between countries ́institutional framework and their trading activity. In our analysis, we investigate the relationship between institutions and trade constructing a measure of institutions from the...

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Firm structure and the location decision of German manufacturing firms : evidence from official firm-level data

Krenz, Astrid - 2016

This paper uses a comprehensive, official firm-level dataset for German manufacturing firms to investigate the location decision of new firm activity in the German regional economy, differentiated by firm structure. The rich regional dimension of this dataset is investigated for the first time...

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The gender gap in international trade : female-run firms and the exporter productivity premium

Krenz, Astrid - 2019

Female-run firms are less likely to be exporters although they exert positive influence in various aspects in an economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show...

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