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Indonesia has made significant progress in increasing access to education over the last decade. Despite these … impressive trends, many children do not continue their education beyond the primary and junior secondary level. While a number of … factors influence a household's schooling decision, the direct and indirect costs of education are important particularly for …
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analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …
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The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …
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We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all …
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This paper aims to investigate the relation between inefficiency in the Brazilian education system and municipal wealth …
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Like other bankruptcy scholars, I am drawn to financial crises, wherever they occur. When Puerto Rico's distress deepened and the island passed its own municipal bankruptcy law back in 2014, I did what comes naturally, shifting my gaze to the Caribbean. I wrote op-eds, an amicus brief, and a...
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This paper presents a new approach for measuring the effects of competition on school performance. We use an equilibrium sorting model to generate an intuitive measure of the competition each school faces, captured by the slope of the school’s demand curve. We then show that this competition...
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The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …
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role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …
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