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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in …
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days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
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the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
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.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
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We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
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