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This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...
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institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on … heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants' demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
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institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on … heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants' demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
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institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on … heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
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institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on … heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
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institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serfdom, has a negative effect on schooling …
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probability of being literate according to their parents' socio-economic status. Although inequality in education declined during … relationship between class, access to education and social mobility. In order to do so, we first focus on children and assess the … location of public schools, we show that, although the expansion of the supply of schools improved access to education of …
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. Under reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes … larger such that the size of the middle class has a positive impact on education. We test the relationship empirically by … determinant of female education than male education and that the effect of the middle class on education is more pronounced in …
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outcomes observed on the African continent. Exploiting the language policy change of 1994 in Ethiopia as a natural experiment … suggest that provision of mother tongue education led to an increase of 0.75 to 1 year of primary schooling in the affected … cohort. Moreover the entire increase in the years of schooling can be attributed to the intensive margin of education. The …
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This study examines linkages between inequality, information and communication technology (ICT) and inclusive education … in order to establish inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for ICT to promote inclusive education … affect inclusive education. As a main policy implication, the established inequality thresholds should not be exceeded in …
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