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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … years of under-education. A set of predictions is presented to assess the relative importance of these channels, and the … over-education channel is shown to be the more influential factor. This channel is linked to greater positive selection in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
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Does microfinance program innovation reduce income inequality? : cross-country and panel data analysis
Miled, Kamel Bel Hadj; Younsi, Moheddine; Landolsi, Monia - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-15
This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality reduction at the macro level for a sample of 57 developing countries for the periods 2000-2006 and 2007-2013. This study adopts panel data methodologies, such as ordinary least square...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803816
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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 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
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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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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Inequality Affects Long-Run Growth : Cross-Industry, Cross-Country Evidence
Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - 2020
The theoretical literature has predicted that inequality affects long-run growth by reducing human and physical capital, particularly in the presence of imperfect credit markets and other contractual frictions. We test these four mechanisms using measures of inequality at the country-level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835129
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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004
achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261798
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270563