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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and...

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2007

The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in promoting economic well-being, with a particular focus on...

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Capital Mobility, Fiscal Policy and Growth under Self-Financing of Human Capital Formation

Buiter, Willem H. - 1995

This paper considers the effects of fiscal and financial policy on economic growth in open and closed economies, when human capital formation by young households is constrained by the illiquidity of human wealth. Both endogenous and exogenous growth versions of the basic OLG model are analyzed....

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

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Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2009

Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...

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Causes of the Great Recession of 2007-9 : The Financial Crisis is the Symptom not the Disease!

Jagannathan, Ravi - 2009

Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …

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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

Jacks, David S. - 2009

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

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Sequencing of Reforms, Financial Globalization, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability

Edwards, Sebastian - 2008

I use a large cross country data set and panel probit analysis to investigate the way in which the interaction between trade and financial openness affect the probability of external crises. This analysis is related to debate on the adequate sequencing of reform. I also investigate the role...

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