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Economic growth and the cultural transmission of attitudes towards education
Varvarigos, Dimitrios - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612661
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The paradoxes of the liberal ethics of non-interference
Mariotti, Marco; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
raise important issues for liberal approaches in social choice and political philosophy. -- Liberalism ; Noninterference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933903
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Liberal egalitarianism and the harm principle
Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
This paper analyses Rawls's celebrated difference principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a finite and an infinite number of agents. A unified framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877121
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Liberal principles for social welfare relations in infinitely-lived societies
Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to infinitely-lived societies. First, a novel characterisation of the inegalitarian leximax social welfare relation is provided based on the Individual Benefit Principle,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877125
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Endogenous education and long-run factor shares
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Oberfield, Ezra; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648357
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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanović, Branko - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290253
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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 … years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661892
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From teacher quality to teaching quality : instructional productivity and teaching practices in the US
Briole, Simon - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001472
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Education, social security and growth
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Zilcha, Itzhak - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000956934
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Crime and education in a model of information transmission
Cortés, Darwin; Friebel, Guido; Maldonado, Darío - 2010
profitability of crime relative to education. These assumptions allow us to study the effect of social interactions on crime. We … and show that policies that decrease the cost of education for talented students may increase the vulnerability of less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746932