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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

Rainer, Ilia - 2012

The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...

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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2013

not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …

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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2010

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

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School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios : Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools

Duflo, Esther - 2012

Some education policymakers focus on bringing down pupil-teacher ratios. Others argue that resources will have limited … impact without systematic reforms to education governance, teacher incentives, and pedagogy. We examine a program under which … contract renewable conditional on performance, outside normal Ministry of Education civil-service channels, at one …

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited

Card, David - 2021

This paper presents a survey and interpretation of recent research on the return to education. The empirical findings … in a series of current papers suggest that the causal effect of education on earnings is understated by standard …

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Education and Self-Selection

Willis, Robert J.; Rosen, Sherwin - 2021

A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...

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