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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 3, pp. 571-598
policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …
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Wasser für Gesundheit in Entwicklungsländern: Herausforderungen am Beispiel Jemen
Meier, Kristina; Rieckmann, Johannes - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 35, pp. 815-821
Verbesserte Trinkwasserversorgung und Abwasserentsorgung gehören zu den wichtigsten Zielen im Auf- und Ausbau der Infrastruktur in Entwicklungsländern. Die erwünschte Verbesserung der Wasserqualität innerhalb der angeschlossenen Haushalte wird aber nicht immer erreicht, beispielsweise wenn...
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Financing the public health system: Defining reference point for optimizing managerial decisions
Nicolae, Stoina Cristian - In: Budgetary Research Review (BRR) 3 (2011) 1, pp. 67-74
Financing the public health system represents a central reference point of the decisional algorithm necessary for ensuring an advanced management, in the sense that the purpose of this tactic is to analyse the current financial management, to formulate some observations and to present some...
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"Rente mit 67": die überschätzte wie unterschätzte Reform
Rürup, Bert - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 80 (2011) 2, pp. 53-60
Seit Jahren wird jedes neugeborene Kind im Durchschnitt drei Monate älter als ein Neugeborenes des Vorjahres. Dieser Lebenserwartungsgewinn von sechs Stunden am Tag schlägt sich - bei konstantem Renteneintrittsalter - in steigenden Rentenlaufzeiten nieder. Die "Rente mit 67" versucht, einen...
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Does good local governance improve subjective well-being?
Cárcaba, Ana; Arrondo, Rubén; González Fidalgo, Eduardo - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-10
The goal of this research is to examine the effects of good management of local governments on individual subjective well-being (SWB). We define three dimensions of good governance at the municipal level: accountability, government efficiency and control of corruption. We use a large survey of...
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Universities of the Third Age in Poland: Emerging Model for 21st Century
Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: Journal of Education, Psychology and Social Sciences 1 (2013) 2, pp. 8-14
multidisciplinary non-formal education centers, which allow formation of positive responses to the challenges of an ageing population …
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Value for money in organizations providing public education services and how to measure it
Štrangfeldová, Jana; Štefanišinová, Nikola - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 66 (2020) 2, pp. 62-70
of resources, with due regard for value received. Education is no exception. This study focus on the presentation and … evaluation of public organizations (public grammar schools in our case) in education on the basis of their economy, efficiency … study can provide useful information about the situation of education for public forces and for public grammar schools …
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Government expenditure on human capital and growth in Namibia: A time series analysis
Shafuda, Christopher P. P.; De, Utpal Kumar - In: Journal of Economic Structures 9 (2020) 21, pp. 1-14
indicators like healthcare outcomes, education achievements and increase in national income in Namibia using time series data …-run positive relationship of government spending on education with literacy rate, net primary and gross tertiary enrolment rate …. Whereas, no cointegration between government spending on education and gross enrolment rate at primary and secondary level is …
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Nexus between healthcare financing and output per capita: Analysis of countries in ECOWAS sub-region
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
. Expenditure on health and education are recognized by experts as key predictors of human capital development. The latter is …
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Maturity and school outcomes in an inflexible system: Evidence from Catalonia
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Loviglio, Annalisa - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-49
The existence of a rigid cutoff date which determines when children start primary school creates a large heterogeneity in students' level of maturity within the classroom. We use rich administrative data of the universe of public schools in Catalonia to show that: (1) relatively younger children...
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