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We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our …. Using school-level data on applicants' top-ranked programs for all admission rounds between 2016 and 2020, we implement a …
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Ceding ownership to outside investors provides a control dilemma for founders. In less developed capital markets with weaker formal institutions, we argue that retained founder director ownership can lower the transaction costs of external capital. Our argument rests on incomplete contracting...
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School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental … contributions. A cash grant alone for poor schools results in an increase in resources available to the school in less than the cash …
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-scale Presidential Instruction Primary School construction programme (SD INPRES) rolled out in Indonesia in the 1970s to examine the … effect of increased school supply on schooling attainment: overall, by gender, and by socioeconomic background. It also …
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Background: The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the problem of combining work and private life. The pandemic conditions have turned out to be particularly difficult for parents who, due to changes in the organization of the education system, have been forced to reconcile their professional...
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the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
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the long-term effect of the COVID-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
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