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Promotion with and without Learning: Effects onStudent Enrollment and Dropout Behavior

King, Elizabeth M.; Orazem, Peter F.; Paterno, Elizabeth M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008

Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy – evenautomatic promotion – in … persistence or continuationin school and that the promotion of children with lower achievement does not hampertheir ability or …(NWFP) of Pakistan, students are promoted primarily on the basis of merit. Aneconometric decomposition of promotion decisions …

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Reform of Russian Power Industry

Hubert, Franz; Matthey, Astrid; Andrianov, Alexandr - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / Chair … - 2003

This paper takes a critical look at the challenges and achievements in the reformof the Russian power industry. Russian politics emphasized restructuring and privatization,which are widely seen as preconditions for attracting private investment.However, progress along this line has been slow and...

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Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power

Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2020

Policy reforms are often multifaceted. In the rent-seeking literature policies are usually taken as one-dimensional. This paper models policy formation using a political contest with endogenous policy proposals containing two dimensions. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one...

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Reluctant to reform? : a note on risk-loving politicians and bureaucrats

Thomas, Tobias; Hess, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Review of economics 68 (2017) 3, pp. 167-179

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Reluctant to reform? : a note on risk-loving politicians and bureaucrats

Thomas, Tobias; Heß, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - 2017

As from a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms, we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on the empirical results of a survey of the population in...

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Reluctant to reform? : a note on risk-loving politicians and bureaucrats

Thomas, Tobias; Heß, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - 2017

From a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms. In this contribution we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on three surveys among the German...