Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle income country, this paper estimates the impact … development. Colombian municipalities were assigned to administer their public education service autonomously solely on the basis … municipal balance sheet data, I show that the autonomous high-developed municipalities invest in education more than the ad hoc …

We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect … people-oriented occupations while ethnic polarization reduces this likelihood. Using data on social and cognitive skills, we …

induced by the "PISA shock" in Germany led to an increase in the polarization of parliamentary debates about education. …Pietro Sancassani prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institut … subject-specific qualification, a major in education, or their level of experience - on student science test scores in ten …

Flanders, Lübeck and Prussia, our results showing that Flanders-Lübeck constituted a much better-integrated market than … Flanders-Prussia. Moreover, the results indicate that the degree of market integration increased between the early fourteenth …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816, 1849, and 1867 - to estimate the relationship between women's education and … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental‐variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

Prussia. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from 1700 with Prussian firm-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in … Brandenburg-Prussia where they were channeled into towns to compensate population losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years …