Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit dem Beitrag von Georg Breidenstein „Ungleiche Grundschulen und die meritokratische Fiktion im deutschen Schulsystem“ auseinander. Dabei werden viele Aspekte von Breidenstein unterstrichen. Allerdings wiederspricht der Beitrag in einem zentralen Punkt,...

This paper extends Meenagh and Minford (2021) to the four waves of infection in the UK by end-2021, using the unique newly available sample-based estimates of infections created by the ONS. These allow us to estimate the e§ects on the Covid hospitalisation and fatality rates of vaccination and...

Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the 'Fit for 55' update of the European Union's CO₂ regulation is up to the task of fixing its past mistakes and putting Europe on course to reach net zero mobility by 2050, while also dealing with the new set of challenges that arises with the...

Estimating linear rational expectations models requires replacing the expectations of future, endogenous variables either with forecasts from a fully solved model, or with the instrumented actual values, or with forecast survey data. Extending the methods of McCallum (1976) and Gottfries and...

In this paper we develop a statistical model of language complexity trade-offs using four typological measures (related to phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon). The data come from the 100-language sample that appears in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), and the trade-offs are...

At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches - known locally as "midday meals" - in government primary schools. This paper provides a large-scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm...

[Einleitung] Am 11. März 2020 erklärte die Weltgesundheitsorganisation die neuartige Covid-19-Erkrankung zur globalen Pandemie. In Ermangelung medizinischer Behandlungs- und Schutzmöglichkeiten wurden auf der ganzen Welt seitdem nicht-pharmazeutische Maßnahmen gegen eine ungebremste...