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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003
China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use …% annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13%. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …
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Wien - Wismar - Weltkulturerbe: Grundlagen, Probleme und Perspektiven
Schediwy, Robert - 2003
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Wirtschaft in der Schule. Agendasetting, Akteure, Aktivitäten
Hedtke, Reinhold - 2012
Der Beitrag analysiert das interessen- und bildungspolitische Feld der ökonomischen Bildung und fragt nach den relevanten Akteuren, ihren Ziele, Interessen und Aktivitäten. Er arbeitet die Grundlinien der bildungspolitischen Kontroverse um ein separates Schulfach Wirtschaft heraus und zeigt,...
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Cultural Goods Consumption and Cultural Capital
Pethig, Rüdiger; Cheng, Sao-Wen - 2000
Cultural capital is assumed to benefit all members of society. It is built up by the aggregate consumption of cultural goods and is diminished through depreciation. In the no-policy market economy, consumers tend to ignore the beneficial external effects of their cultural good consumption on the...
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Berliner sind Kulturliebhaber: die Nutzung des Kulturangebots in Berlin im bundesdeutschen Vergleich
Schneider, Thorsten; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 69 (2002) 4, pp. 63-67
Die Nachfrage nach kulturellen Veranstaltungen ist bei Berlinern deutlich ausgeprägter als bei den übrigen Bundesbürgern. Dies gilt auch im Vergleich zu Bewohnern anderer deutscher Metropolen. Wie die Daten des vom DIW Berlin erhobenen Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen, gilt das große...
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Contingent valuation and cultural policy design: The case of "Napoli Musei Aperti"
Santagata, Walter; Signorello, Giovanni - 1998
The aim of the paper is twofold: to carry out a contingent valuation study of "Napoli Musei Aperti", a cultural public good provided by the city of Naples, and to explore some alternative schemes of cultural policy. The paper is divided in two parts. In the first one some results from the...
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Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts
Abbing, Hans - 2008
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their support is ineffective: subsidies only increase the...
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The monetary value of cultural goods: a contingent valuation study of the municipal supply of cultural goods in Lueneburg, Germany
Last, Anne-Kathrin - 2007
This paper aims to determine if the contingent valuation method (CVM) can provide valid results useful in policy-making. This will be investigated by using a CV study that captures the willingness to pay (WTP) for the municipal cultural supply in Lueneburg, Germany. In contrast to previous CV...
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World heritage: where are we? An empirical analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010
An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the existing List according to countries and continents. The...
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Making - or picking - winners: evidence of internal and external price effects in historic preservation policies
Noonan, Douglas S.; Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper outlines a general case of land use regulation in the presence of externalities and then demonstrates...
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