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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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Work-Based Learning in U.S. Higher Educational Policy
Raelin, Joseph A. - 2012
Although most U.S. institutions of higher education now make appreciable use of work-based learning options, their … attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection between the work experience and …
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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020
period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …
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Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?
Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2017
education on vocational training programs. We find that the reform reduced the gap in voting mainly by means of its stronger … compared to persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help to reduce the socio …-economic gap in voting. We distinguish between reforms of two types that may lead to differences in the exercise of voting; (a …
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Student abilities during the expansion of US education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013
The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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Strategy-proof tie-breaking in matching with priorities
Ehlers, Lars H.; Westkamp, Alexander - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 3, pp. 1009-1042
A set of indivisible objects is allocated among agents with strict preferences. Each object has a weak priority ranking of the agents. A collection of priority rankings, a priority structure, is solvable if there is a strategy-proof mechanism that is constrained efficient, i.e. that always...
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On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism
Kesten, Onur; Kurino, Morimitsu - 2012
This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications. We show that in problems where some students cannot...
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Misuse of institutions : lessons from Transition
Poliščuk, Leonid - 2010
The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...
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