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The effect of banning affirmative action on human capital accumulation prior to college entry

Antonovics, Kate; Backes, Benjamin - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

This paper examines how banning affirmative action in university admissions affects both overall academic achievement and the racial gap in academic achievement prior to college entry. Focusing on college-bound high school students, we use a difference-in-difference methodology to analyze the...

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Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility

Bautista, Maria Angelica; González, Felipe; Martinez, … - 2021

We study the relationship between political regimes and higher education and its implications for social mobility and …

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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility

Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024

We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences … education disproportionately affected applicants from less affluent backgrounds and plausibly contributed to the increase in …

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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers

Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016

. Chapter 3 examines whether the municipalities' voting behavior in state elections in a German state influenced the …, ob das Wahlverhalten der Gemeinden bei Landtagswahlen in einem deutschen Bundesland die Verteilung von diskretionären …

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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers

Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016

This volume was prepared by Markus Reischmann while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in November 2015. It includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public...

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Voting on Education and Redistribution Policies in the U.S : Does Endogenous Fertility Matter?

Tolstova, Vera - 2021

fertility in explaining the generosity of redistribution and education policies in the U.S. Policies are endogenised as outcomes … of majority voting. I find that accounting for endogenous fertility is essential for strong performance of the model in … matching the levels of both transfers and education subsidies in the U.S. economy. The predictions of the model regarding a …

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How does access to education influence political candidacy? : lessons from school openings in Sweden

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2016

How does availability of education affect who becomes a political representative? Theorists have pointed out access to … education as a key to a well-functioning democracy, but few empirical studies have examined how changes in the access to … education influence the chances of becoming a politician. In this paper we analyze the effects of a substantial series of school …

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Does longer compulsory education equalize schooling by gender and rural/urban residence?

Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayioglu-Tayfur, Meltem; Koç, Ismet - 2014

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 - which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure - on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural...

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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2014

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...

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Gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence: can compulsory schooling reduce it?

Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2020

persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 … more years of schooling and reduced the effect of parental education on the completion probability of new compulsory …

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