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We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...

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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012

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