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The euro’s trade effect under cross-sectional heterogeneity and stochastic resistance

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2010

This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …

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Keeping a low profile : what determines the allocation of aid by non-governmental organizations?

Koch, Dirk-Jan; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2008

NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...

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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); … - 2006

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973-2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

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Are "new" donors different? : comparing the allocation of bilateral aid between non-DAC and DAC donor countries

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2010

Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...

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Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature

Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012

What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors’ aid budgets and examine which of the suggested variables robustly determine aid effort, measured as Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income. More...

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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

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries

Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger; Gmelin, Jens - 2000 - Revised version

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...

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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 …

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

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version

differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for …

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