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Ranking Teachers when Teacher Value-Added is Heterogeneous Across Students

Stacy, Brian - 2014

The typical measure used by researchers and school administrators to evaluate teachers is based on how the students' achievement increases after being exposed to the teacher, or based on the teacher's "value-added''. When teacher value-added is heterogeneous across her students, the typically...

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A Year of Online Classes Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Advantages, Problems, and Suggestions of Economics Students at a Bangladeshi Public University

Shuchi, Musharrat Shabnam; Tabassum, Sayeda Chandra; … - 2021

Though there have been works highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of online learning, no study focused on university-level economics students. None of the studies explored students' opinions about improving the quality and effectiveness of online classes. Many used questionable samples,...

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Do Customs Trade Facilitation Programmes Help Reduce Customs-Related Corruption?

Michael, Bryane; Popov, Maja - 2012

Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each year. Using recent data only about bribe payers’ actual experiences in paying bribes, we show that trade facilitation would only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency...

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Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity in the Czech Republic: A Quantitative Survey

Havranek, Tomas; Hampl, Mojmir - 2018

In this paper we take stock of the evidence concerning the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of locally owned firms in the Czech Republic. To this end, we collect 332 estimates previously reported in journal articles, working papers, and PhD theses. We find that the...

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Peaceful transition of power in Senegal: How realistic are the new hopefuls' prospects?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2024

The election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye as President of Senegal on March 24, 2024, after a turbulent electoral process …, reflects the resilience of Senegal's democratic institutions. It provides an opportunity to strengthen transparent governance … and combat inequality. It was the first time since Senegal's independence from France in 1960 that an opposition candidate …

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Market power, efficiency and welfare performance of banks: evidence from the Ghanaian banking industry

Adeabah, David; Andoh, Charles - 2019

The study analyses the welfare performance of banks’ lending services in the Ghanaian banking industry with emphasis on the role of market power and efficiency. We made use of pooled OLS regression with fixed effect model. For robustness, we adopted Prais–Winsten (1954) regression and...

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Keeping up with the Joneses: Other-regarding Preferences and Endogenous Growth

Petach, Luke; Tavani, Daniele - 2017

We study a series of sustained growth models in which households' preferences are affected by the consumption of other households as summarized by average consumption. In endogenous growth models, the equilibrium paths involve lower savings and lower growth than the corresponding efficient...

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Here Lives a Wealthy Man: Price Rigidity and Predictability in Luxury Housing Markets

Levy, Daniel; Snir, Avichai - 2018

We use novel and unique data to study the effect of price changes in the market for luxury and middle class homes. We find that luxury home sales respond less to price changes than the middle-class home sales; in the market for luxury homes, past prices affect current prices; luxury home prices...

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