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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation : other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012

empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …

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Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have...

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Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000

of education. Cross-country differences in qualityadjusted human capital can account for about half the world …

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Donor coordination and specialization : did the Paris declaration make a difference?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Thiele, Rainer - 2011

We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We account for donor heterogeneity, varying aid priorities and recipient characteristics in order to isolate changes in...

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New evidence on the missing resource-performance link in education

Woessmann, Ludger - 2001

New evidence confirms the conclusion of former surveys that the link between school resources and student performance is generally missing in educational production. While the conventional within-country cross-section evidence remains controversial, recent contributions which control for...

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Class-size effects in school systems around the world : evidence from between-grade variation in TIMSS

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002

We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects....

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Schooling resources, educational institutions, and student performance : the international evidence

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...

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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : International evidence

West, Martin R. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does private aid follow the flag? : an empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2019 - This version: April 2019

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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