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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … centralization increases the provision of primary education relatively more in linguistically polarized counties. … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474691
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … on census data, originally collected by the Royal Statistical Office of Prussia and partly digitized for this thesis. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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Education Economics from a Historical Perspective
Schüler, Ruth Maria - 2018
background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … on census data, originally collected by the Royal Statistical Office of Prussia and partly digitized for this thesis. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815682
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … centralization increases the provision of primary education relatively more in linguistically polarized counties … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989025
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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods
Krieger, Tommy - 2020
We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314808
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Elite Structure and the Provision of Health-Promoting Public Goods
Krieger, Tommy - 2020
We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090538
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A SWOT analysis of the financial decentralization strategies for the Romanian pre-university education
Miricescu, Emilian-Constantin; Ţâţu, Lucian - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 5 (2014) 1, pp. 20-28
-university education. In Romania, local public authorities provide funds to pre-university institutions. Given the sharp economic recession …
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Local agency costs of political centralization
Myerson, Roger B. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 425-448
We analyze a model of moral hazard in local public services which could be efficiently managed by officials under local democratic accountability, but not by officials who are appointed by the ruler of a centralized autocracy. The ruler might prefer to retain an official who diverted resources...
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A replication of "Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution" (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011)
Edwards, Jeremy - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-3, pp. 1-33
Although European economic history provides essentially no support for the view that education of the general … population has a positive causal effect on economic growth, a recent paper by Becker, Hornung and Woessmann (Education and Catch …-Up in the Industrial Revolution, 2011) claims that such education had a significant impact on Prussian industrialisation …
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Education and industrialization in Prussia : a reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2013
important role in enabling Prussia to catch up with Britain during the nineteenth century. -- education ; industrialization …This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When …
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