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The impact of public expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth and income distribution in Peru
Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014
The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on...
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Impact of transfers on elementary education expenditure and measuring equalization transfers to Indian States
Rosario, Jyotsna; Shanmugam, K. R. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331095
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Two sides of the same coin or two different coins? : exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America
Hugo, Ella; Savage, David; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2021
The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …
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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167940
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Education and crime over the life cycle
Fella, Giulio (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be considered an effective and cost-viable alternative to interventions based on harsher punishment alone. In particular we study the effect of subsidizing high school completion....
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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...
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Measuring opportunity in U.S. higher education
Hoxby, Caroline M.; Turner, Sarah E. - 2019
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Expansionary and contractionary fiscal multipliers in the U.S.
Kapetanios, George; Koutroumpis, Panagiotis; Tsoukis, … - 2022
We estimate the fiscal (spending) multiplier using quarterly U.S. data, 1986-2017. We define government spending shocks as actual minus expected expenditure growth, the latter obtained from the Survey of Professional Forecasters. We employ the ST-VAR model with the local projections method. A...
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Spatial dependence in models of state fiscal policy convergence
Coughlin, Cletus Charles (contributor);  … - 2006 - Rev.
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Who benefits from increased government spending? : A state-level analysis
Owyang, Michael T.; Zubairy, Sarah - 2009
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