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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy … (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …
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Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre - 2006
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nick - 2006
US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
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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Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education
Bound, John - 2009
The representation of a large number of students born outside the United States among the ranks of doctorate recipients from U.S. universities is one of the most significant transformations in U.S. graduate education and the international market for highly-trained workers in science and...
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Government Expenditure on the Public Education System
Fu, Chao - 2019
We investigate equilibrium impacts of federal policies such as free-college proposals, taking into account that human capital production is cumulative and that state governments have resource constraints. In the model, a state government cares about household welfare and aggregate educational...
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
Carneiro, Pedro - 2010
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462183
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Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality : Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2009
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing initial levels of achievement are exposed. Using both a regression discontinuity design and...
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