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Evaluating the effects of decentralization on educational outcomes in Spain

Salinas, Paula; Solé-Ollé, Albert - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

Several arguments derived from fiscal federalism theory suggest that decentralization may lead to improved levels of … effects of decentralization on educational outcomes in Spain. These are measured using a survival rate, defined as the ratio … comprising the 50 provinces of Spain for the years 1978 to 2005, a period that covers the entire process of decentralization …

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The effect of decentralization on educational outcomes: real autonomy matters!

Salinas, Paula - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014

This paper uses cross-national data to examine the effects of different dimensions of decentralization on the … expenditure and revenue sides of their activities, is what really matters in determining the effect of decentralization on … conducted, thus corroborating that they are not driven by the potential endogeneity of decentralization policies. …

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The Effect of Decentralization on Educational Outcomes : Real Autonomy Matters!

Salinas, Paula - 2014

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Promoting scientific faculties: Does it work? Evidence from Italy

Maestri, Virginia - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 168-180

In reaction to the OECD-wide declining trend in scientific enrollments, the Italian government launched a policy in 2005 to promote the study of science at the university. The policy promoted extra-curricular activities for secondary school students in Chemistry, Physics, Math and Materials...

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Impact of an educational demand-and-supply policy on girls' education in West Africa: Heterogeneity in income, school environment and ethnicity

Fatoke-Dato, Mafaïzath A. - 2015

The present paper measures the impact of an educational demand-and-supply side policy in a developing country, Benin. This West African country has introduced in 2006 a program to eliminate school fees, build schools and recruit teachers. The data used are the National Demographic and Health...

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Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2002

This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond estimating assorted mean impacts to estimate distributions of outcomes generated by different policies and determine...

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