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Three essays on financial development in emerging markets
Diekmann, Katharina - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212785
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Potential economic impact of COVID-19-related school closures
Cohen, Spencer; Chakravarthy, Sumathi; Bharathi, Sindhu; … - 2022
Severe disruptions in school education during the coronavirus disease (COVID–19) pandemic has impacted children through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193649
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Employment protection and labour productivity growth in the EU : skill-specific effects during and after the Great Recession
Fedotenkov, Igor; Kvedaras, Virmantas; … - 2022
the conditioning role played by the skills of the labour force, captured by different levels of education. We find that … stricter labour protection reduces labour productivity growth in sectors with a large share of workers with tertiary education …, whereas this effect is negligible or positive in sectors where workers with secondary or only primary education are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259541
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Educational outcomes : a literature review of policy drivers from a macroeconomic perspective
Smidova, Zuzana - 2019
better educational outcomes: quality pre-primary education, quality teaching, accountability and autonomy of teaching … institutions, comprehensive lower secondary education and availability of individual financing for the pursuit of higher education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202848
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932916
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017
We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704542
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Bismarck's health insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879770
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915318
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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?
Riddell, Abby - 2012
This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331093
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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education : what can be learned?
Riddell, Abby Rubin - 2012
This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611809