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We study the effects of increased school spending in rural American school districts by leveraging the introduction and subsequent expansion of Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program. We find that the program, which provides additional state funding to small and isolated school districts, increased...
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during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
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This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and geology, two majors closely related to the energy industry. We find strong evidence that the energy...
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This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures...
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The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
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previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … weakened considerably during the recent recession. In fact, majority of our estimates indicate that the relationship has …
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-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our …, our simulations suggest that the reduction in household income due to the Great Recession mitigated the flight toward …
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Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type of employment contract, and on cross-country...
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Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per … crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines the income distribution consequences of the recession, and identifies … factors are the direct effects of the recession itself. Policy changes do contribute to the larger than average losses at high …
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The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth collapses and movements in variables such as health and...
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