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Capital Flows in Asia
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
This paper characterizes the capital flows in Asia before and after the Asian currency crisis of 1997. Differences in … factors to the role of capital flows in the currency crises in different countries, especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea …
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Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?
Kaplan, Ethan - 2001
. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not … summer of 1998, while it had significantly eased up in Korea and Thailand. We employ a time-shifted differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470587
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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2008
Many countries mandate affirmative action in university admissions for traditionally disadvantaged groups. Little is known about either the efficacy or costs of these programs. This paper examines affirmative action in engineering colleges in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it...
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453833
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Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration : Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration...
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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Pritchett, Lant - 2014
substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there …
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for … regions in Asia and the selected other regions and aggregates are constructed to reinforce the importance of recognizing …
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Benevolent Colluders? The Effects of Antitrust Action on College Financial Aid and Tuition
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2000
The Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation of private colleges for price-fixing caused the Overlap' group of colleges to discontinue their meetings. DOJ alleged that the meetings enabled the colleges to collude on higher tuition and increase their tuition revenue. The colleges claimed...
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Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing
Thursby, Jerry G. - 2000
Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in technology transfer through licensing as universities attempt to appropriate the returns from faculty research. This change has prompted concerns regarding...
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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period : What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
Card, David - 2000
Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of...
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