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Subjective Economic Well-Being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002
This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered logit model, the determinants of subjective economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119288
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262767
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Class-size effects in school systems around the world : evidence from between-grade variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411229
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2002
We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260490
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Class-size effects in school systems around the world : evidence from between-grade variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002
We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474710
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Institutional Structure and Labor Market Outcomes : Western Lessons for European Countries in Transition
Flanagan, Robert J. - 2006
Changes in economic systems provide a rare opportunity to redesign basic institutional structures in labor markets. This paper attempts to provide guidance for such institutional choice by drawing on the findings of recent labor market research in market economies on the links between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781894
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Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2021
This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316944
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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252653
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How Corruption Affects Bank Lending in Russia
Weill, Laurent - 2012
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … interest in order to understand the causes of financial underdevelopment and the effects of corruption in Russia. We use … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109320
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806721