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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...

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Educational inputs and economic development in end-of-nineteenth-century Prussia

Schueler, Ruth - 2016

Which role did educational investments play for economic development? Using data on schooling quantity and quality provided by the first and second Prussian census on primary schools and two measures capturing the high and the low end of the income distribution allows applying a value-added...

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Response of economic growth to the dynamics of service sector in Nigeria

Adetokunbo, Abiodun Moses; Edioye, Ochuwa Priscillia - In: Future Business Journal 6 (2020) 1, pp. 1-10

The misconception of services as being non-productive has led to the neglect of the service sector in both economic theory and applied economic researches. The Nigerian economy highly depends on the oil sector to generate revenue for the entire economy. This study examines the response of...

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Public spending and poverty in Mozambique

Heltberg, Rasmus; Simler, Kenneth; Tarp, Finn - 2001

Little is known about the extent to which public spending is targeted towards the poor in Mozambique. The objective of the present paper is to assess whether public expenditures on education and health, in particular, are successful at reaching the poorer segments of the Mozambican population....

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Effectiveness of foreign aid in poverty reduction in Africa: The role of fiscal policy

Iwegbu, Onyebuchi; Dauda, Risikat O. S. - In: CBN Journal of Applied Statistics 13 (2022) 1, pp. 55-92

This study examines foreign aid effectiveness in poverty reduction in Africa with focus on the role of regional fiscal policy on education and health. The study employs panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimation technique and covers the period 1980-2017. The results reveal that...

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Government Artificial Intelligence readiness and brain drain: Influencing factors and spatial effects in the European Union member states

Iuga, Iulia Cristina; Socol, Adela - In: Journal of Business Economics and Management (JBEM) 25 (2024) 2, pp. 268-296

In the swiftly advancing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a field where every country aims to keep pace, significant disparities are observed in how different nations adopt AI. This study explores the deep, yet insufficiently studied, effects of AI on societal, economic, and environmental...

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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...

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The Cost of Decentralization: Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schueler, Ruth Maria - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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The Effects of Funding on Student Performance: Findings from PISA 2018

Szekeres (Vancza), Gabriella; Caldararu, Alina; … - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 20 (2021) 4, pp. 670-696

the pre-university education system and the student-teacher ratio together with the results obtained by students in tests … consequences on the outcome of the pre-university education system. Data - Research data were collected from the OECD (Organization … effects of decisions regarding funding and pay policy for pre-university education using the results obtained by students in …

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