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Decentralizing education resources: School grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445729
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Decentralizing education resources: School grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouede, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507633
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531664
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Education Economics from a Historical Perspective
Schüler, Ruth Maria - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815682
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Fiscal decentralization and pollution: Institutions matter
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mennel, Tim - 2012
We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of … institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294383
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Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben
Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Steiner, Viktor - 2006
In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis von Paneldaten für die westdeutschen Bundesländer untersucht, ob und in welchem Maße der demographische Wandel sowie die unterschiedlichen politischen Parteienkonstellationen die Hochschulausgaben auf Länderebene beeinflussen. Wir finden empirische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297823
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Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben
Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Steiner, Viktor - 2006
In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis von Paneldaten für die westdeutschen Bundesländer untersucht, ob und in welchem Maße der demographische Wandel sowie die unterschiedlichen politischen Parteienkonstellationen die Hochschulausgaben auf Länderebene beeinflussen. Wir finden empirische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324238
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Are the elderly a threat to educational expenditures?
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2007
Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272625
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Explaining leakage of public funds
Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - 2001
Using panel data from a unique survey of public primary schools in Uganda we assess the degree of leakage of public funds in education. The survey data reveal that on average, during the period 1991–5, schools received only 13 percent of what the central government contributed to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279128
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The effect of mandated state education spending on total local resources
Baicker, Katherine; Gordon, Nora - 2004
Many states are under court-order to reduce local disparities in education spending. While a substantial body of literature suggests that these orders and the resulting school finance equalizations have increased the level and progressivity of state education spending, there is little evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261259