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Can political inequalities be educated away? Evidence from a Swedish school reform
Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; T Dawes, Christopher - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014
recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …
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Ethnic Heterogeneity, Voting Partecipation and Local Economic Growth. The Case of Belgium
Innocenti, Alessandro; Lorini, Francesca; Rapallini, Chiara - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2014
The paper analyzes the case of Belgium to provide insight into the relationships among ethnic heterogeneity, voting … participation and local economic growth. We find that heterogeneity, and external and internal mobility reduce immigrants’ voting … participation, while we do not find support for the hypothesis that voting participation is related to local economic growth, with …
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Número de hermanos, orden de nacimiento y resultados educativos en la niñez: evidencia en Perú.
Saldarriaga, Víctor - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2012
El presente estudio investiga el efecto del número de hijos y el orden de nacimiento en la asistencia a la escuela, en la probabilidad de retraso escolar y en el año o grado normativo para la edad en niños de 6 a 14 años de edad. La estrategia de identificación se basa en el uso de...
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More harm than good? Sorting effects in a Compensatory education program
Davezies, Laurent; Garrouste, Manon - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2014
In this paper, we provide evidence that compensatory education policies that target schools in socially deprived areas …-based compensatory education policies, since they tend to avoid schools that enter the RAR program by enrolling in the private sector. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119927
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Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision
Staal, Klaas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows for greater influence over the nature of political decision making while unification allows regions to exploit economies of scale in the provision of public goods. When public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835220
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Tiebout Choice and the Voucher
Brunner, Eric J.; Imazeki, Jennifer - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2006
This paper examines who is likely to gain and who is likely to lose under a universal voucher program. Following Epple and Romano (1998, 2003), and Nechyba (2000, 2003a), we focus on the idea that gains and losses under a universal voucher depend on two effects: changes in peer group composition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839000
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Voters Hold the Key: Lock-in, Mobility and the Portability of Property Tax Exemptions
Cheung, Ron; Cunningham, Chris - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2009
precinct level voting results, we find that support for the law change was greater in high-mobility and high exemption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800094
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How Decisive Is the Decisive Voter?
Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007
deciding how to vote on voting rules …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800220
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National Interference in Local Public Good Provision
Dur, Robert; Staal, Klaas - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...
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Voting for mobile citizens
Wrede, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
with sincere voting, the largest socioeconomic group of citizens supplies the winning candidate and discriminates against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685590