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Policy uncertainty and inventor mobility
Bisset, Jordan; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten - 2022
We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy uncertainty. We find that policy uncertainty raises the rate of inventor emigration by a notable magnitude. With a one standard deviation in the policy uncertainty of the home...
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The effects of increasing the standards of the high school curriculum on school dropout
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015 - This version: January 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection (amongst other things) resulting in an increase in the...
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What happens when separate and unequal school districts merge?
Aue, Robert; Klein, Thilo; Ortega, Josue - 2020
estimate students' preferences over schools and vice versa that does not fully assume that students report their preferences …
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The market value of public education
Soares, Sergei - 2018
and private schools. The idea is to assign to the education of each public school student a market value equivalent to the … schools. This article uses Brazilian test score data, which are particularly good. The main results are not surprising. Pre …
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools
Wyness, Gillian; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly …
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Black-Box Mobilität : Mobilitätsanalysen mit Nachfragedaten : Wirkungen technischer und erhebungsbedingter Eigenschaften auf die Aussagekraft von Mobilitätsdaten
Bock, Benno; Schönduwe, Robert - 2021
During COVID 19, mobility has increasingly entered the public consciousness. The influence of mobility on infection … rates brings the spotlight of public attention onto mobility parameters, previously only discussed within small expert … groups. To a large extent, mobility indicators are currently based on mobile network data (MND). Indicators are provided at a …
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The gravity model of forced displacement using mobile phone data
Beine, Michel; Bertinelli, Luisito; Cömertpay, Rana; … - 2020 - This version: March 30, 2020
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Pandemic catch-22 : how effective are mobility restrictions in halting the spread of COVID-19?
Bharati, Tushar; Fakir, Adnan M. S. - 2020
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Endogenous cross-region human mobility and pandemics
Chen, Xiao; Huang, Hanwei; Ju, Jiandong; Sun, Ruoyan; … - 2022
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