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Sustaining Universal Health Coverage in France: A Perpetual Challenge
Barroy, Helene; Or, Zeynep; Kumar, Ankit; Bernstein, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...
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Inequality of Educational Outcomes: International Evidence from PISA.
Freeman R B.; Machin, S. J.; Viarengo, M.G - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 11 (2011) 3
This paper examines the relation between measures of the within-country inequality of student scores on international academic tests and the average level of scores across countries, using the PISA mathematics tests over 2000-2009. It finds that average test scores are higher in countries with...
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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the … emphasising provision of education in Pakistan, as well as the trend in coverage and public sector spending on education … government education expenditure. The rural areas of Pakistan are the more disadvantaged in the provision of the education …
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Modeling the Transition to Public School Choice
Maroulis, Spiro; Bakshy, Eytan; Gomez, Louis; Wilensky, Uri - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (2014) 2, pp. 3-3
We develop an agent-based model that captures the dynamic processes related to moving from an educational system in which students are automatically assigned to a neighborhood school to one that gives households more choice among existing and newly formed public schools. Analysis of our model...
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A Risk-Based Rationale for Two-way Capital Flows: Why Do Capital Flights and Inward Foreign Direct Investments Co-exist?
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2004
This paper develops a positive theory of two-way capital flows -- the simultaneous outward flight of capital assets, and the inflow of foreign direct investment that acquires ownership of local production units. The basic model exploits insights from entrepreneurial decision making under...
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Affirmative Action, Incentives and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Furstenberg, Eric - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2004
This paper develops a theoretical model of college admissions to study the effects of affirmative action policies on the high school achievement of college bound students. The innovation is to include endogenous human capital decisions in the model. When colleges switch admissions policies, they...
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Experimental Economics method to study pupils motivation
Page, Lionel - In: Revue d'économie politique 120 (2010) 5, pp. 779-792
Experimental Economics provide a new set of tools in the tool box of the education economist. This paper review why … success or failure at school, what are its advantages and what are its limits. Behavioural Economics - Education - Public …
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Is education really underfunded in resource-rich economies? Evidence from a panel of U.S. states
James, Alexander - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2015
expenditures on education. According to this theory, public and private agents lack sufficient foresight to make optimal economic …. Public spending on education in resource-rich states greatly exceeds that in resource-scarce ones, and private education …
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Phenomenological turbulence and innovation in knowledge systems
Hearn, Gregory N.; Rooney, David J.; Mandeville, Thomas - 2003
Most considerations of knowledge management focus on corporations and, until recently, considered knowledge to be objective, stable, and asocial. In this paper we wish to move the focus away from corporations, and examine knowledge and national innovation systems. We argue that the knowledge...
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Tax complexity and fiscal illusion: An empirical evaluation on of the Heyndels and Smolders approach
Dollery, Brian E.; Worthington, Andrew C. - 1999
In a pioneering paper on the revenue-complexity hypothesis, Heyndels and Smolders (1995) demonstrate that the conventional employment of the Hirschman-Herfindal index (HHC) in the empirical analysis of fiscal illusion introduces an arbitrary restriction without theoretical foundation. They...
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