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highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …
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There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with a bureaucrat parent and those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for counter-corruption affect inequality and potential...
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We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...
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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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In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools that provides free individual tutoring online...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …
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We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was...
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While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as measured by depressive symptoms. We use two large...
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The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program - the 'Beautiful Serbia' program … providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro - on measures of subjective well …
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from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the … education. -- rate of return to education ; endogeneity ; sample selection ; quantile regression …
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