In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent residential sorting on school quality can explain this fact. We combine 15 years of data on public elementary school students in North Carolina with geocoded school locations...

Contents -- CESifo Book Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Structure for Understanding Growth -- 3 Knowledge Capital and Growth -- 4 Causation -- 5 Developing Countries -- 6 Developed Countries -- 7 The Economic Value of Educational Reform -- 8 Policies to Improve Knowledge...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Why This Book -- Chapter 2: The Good Story -- Chapter 3: 9/11 and the Alien Within -- Chapter 4: 2019 and the Alien Without -- Chapter 5: Gettysburg-on-the-Gulf -- Chapter 6: The Manager, the General, and the Entomologist -- Chapter 7:...

1. Introduction -- 2. Objectives of the study -- 3. Contribution of the study -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Historical overview and current developments -- 6. Finding of the BLA/MOU mapping exercise -- 7. Towards a preliminary framework for assessment of BLAs/MOUs -- 8. Recommendations

This report on Switzerland examines what kind of training will be needed in the changing economy, how it can be funded, how it can be linked to academic programmes, and how employers and unions can be engaged.

Cover -- Title page -- CIP data -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Connection -- Skill #1: Define a Shared Purpose and Core Values -- Skill #2: Nourish Your Network -- Skill #3: Normalize Change -- Part 2: Attention -- Skill #4: Push Decision-Making to...