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Using the contingent valuation method in developing countries to value mortality risk reduction is particularly challenging because of the low level of education of the respondents. In this paper, we examine the effect of training the respondents regarding probabilities and risk reductions, in...
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Upon outbreak of a contagious animal disease, a primary motive for restoring disease-free status is often to regain access to international product markets. Efforts applied toward continuing or regaining such access is a public good-all growers benefit regardless of extent of private efforts...
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The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important evidence emerges on the historical value of the...
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This paper builds on Barreca et al.’s (2013) finding that over the course of the 20th century the proliferation of residential air conditioning led to a remarkable decline in mortality due to extreme temperature days in the United States. Using panel data on monthly mortality rates of...
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Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
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cognitive skills are significantly related to differences in women's access to high-skilled occupations outside teaching and to …
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Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439058
of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Groningen. Intended learning is measured from the students’ exposure … to seven research aspects taught according to course specific learning goals. The achieved learning outcomes are derived … from the grades that the FEB professors gave on these research aspects when grading the students’ final Master theses. We …
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function of the faculty member's research, teaching, and service contributions, and precise expectations are rarely fully …This paper considers issues pertaining to accounting faculty performance evaluation as it is generally applied in the … performance evaluation are institutionspecific. For example, the number of years of service required before a tenure decision can …
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