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Education and health: Effects of schooling reforms on birth outcomes in Iceland
Birgisdóttir, Kristin Helga; Ásgeirsdóttir, Laufey Tinna - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306501
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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers? Work Hours?
Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter - 2004
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers? hours are largely chosen at the worker?s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
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Bildungsreform und Werteerziehung: Eine ökonomische Betrachtung
Langner, Benedikt - 2005
Ziel des vorliegenden Artikels ist es, zum ersten obige Argumentation einer generellen Kritik zu unterziehen; zum zweiten aber auch ihre mögliche Relevanz für den Fall der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu prüfen. Beides geschieht vor dem Hintergrund der Frage, ob die Sozialisationsfunktion von...
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Education, health and mortality: Evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an extension of compulsory schooling from 7 or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years...
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How English universities could learn from the American higher education system
Taylor, Cyril - 2009
It is a paradox that Britain has used two important United States school reforms: Magnet Schools (specialist schools in Britain) and Charter Schools (academies and City Technology Colleges in Britain) to great effect and has had much greater success with these two initiatives than has been the...
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Schooling for money: Swedish education reform and the role of the profit motive
Sahlgren, Gabriel H. - 2011
An analysis of how the profit motive drove competition and therefore improvements in the Swedish education systemThis IEA Discussion Paper looks at the role of for-profit schools in Sweden and for the first time provides quantitative evidence regarding how these schools perform. The competition...
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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus; Eliasson, Gunnar - 2006
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how Kirzner defines the entrepreneurial function. In order to...
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Austrian Economics, Evolutionary Psychology and Methodological Dualism: Subjectivism Reconsidered
Vanberg, Viktor J. - 2004
The methodological individualism and subjectivism of the Austrian tradition in economics is often associated with a methodological dualism, i.e. the claim that the nature of its subject matter, namely purposeful and intentional human action, requires economics to adopt a methodology that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296221
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Trade along the Ottoman border in post-War era: Commerce in Mitrowitz according to the Austrian customs registers (1719-1723)
Elibol, Numan - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 52 (2023) 1, pp. 11-65
The trade in Mitrowitz in the period following the signing of the commercial treaty of Passarowitz between Austria and … centered in Austria and in indigenous commercial articles, whereas the Ottoman subjects engaged more in border trade and in the … trade of conventional articles exchanged between Austria and the Ottoman provinces. …
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