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positive trade shocks, or improvements in export tax revenues, increased expenditures on education per capita and education … outcomes in the period 1889 to 1930. In fact, trade shocks ended up altering the inequality in education levels across states … in a permanent way. The paper ends by explaining why politicians spent windfall tax revenues to invest on education. …
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began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … and the quality of education in these schools. Our review of the literature, which includes both quantitative and …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …
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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 …
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a way that will have the maximum positive impact on the enhancement of the education system. Cost effectiveness analysis … sample data set from the information available for the education sector of Limpopo Province, South Africa. It utilizes a very … selection of infrastructure investments (either building or repair) in the education sector would increase the efficiency of …
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. The study finds that there is clear evidence of rapid expansion of education, and younger students all over China are … urban-bias hypothesis that is often suggested as the main source of income inequality. – China ; inequality ; education …
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In this paper, we study the roles of expertise and independence on governing boards in the context of education. In … particular, we examine the causal influence of professional educators elected to local school boards on education production … district-level data on education inputs and outcomes. The results reveal that educators on the school board causally increase …
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multidisciplinary non-formal education centers, which allow formation of positive responses to the challenges of an ageing population …
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