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In this paper we predict the pure demographic effect on medical expenditure of the German Statutory Health Insurance … Scheme. To isolate this effect, we assume that the age-specific expenditure for medical treatment as observed in 1991 remains … population increases the (average) per-capita medical expenditure by 18,6 percent. This increase and the decline of labour force …
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We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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This paper analyzes the effect of alternative transition paths after grade 9 of German lower secondary school on vocational training. Using a selection-on-observables approach I show that a delayed transition into vocational training after lower track secondary school is not a disadvantage...
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economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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(Polish Livonia) and Courland. Hence, we argue for the persistence of legacies as drivers of divergent development paths in …
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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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