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Ranking up by moving out: The effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values

Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2010

admission to their state university of choice for all high school seniors who graduate in the top decile of their high school … change discontinuously for previously high-performing school districts. We also find evidence that these strategic reactions … were influenced by the number of local schooling options available: areas that had fewer school choices showed no reaction …

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Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs – An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

Mensah, Joseph; Oppong, Joseph R.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for Ghanaians and eventually replace the cash-and-carry system. This study evaluates the NHIS to determine whether it is fulfilling its purpose in the context of the Millennium...

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Rural Electrification and Fertility – Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Peters, Jörg; Vance, Colin - 2010

Using household-level survey data from Côte d'Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a particular focus on the effect of electrification. Based on count data regression models, our analysis suggests a highly significant relationship between fertility and electricity,...

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Much Ado About Nothing? – Smoking Bans and Germany's Hospitality Industry

Kvasnicka, Michael; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

Over the last years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany such bans were introduced at state level at different points in time, which provides important intra-country regional variation that can be exploited to identify the effects of...

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Rural Electrification and Manufacturing Firm Performance in Benin – An Ex-Ante Impact Assessment

Peters, Jörg; Vance, Colin; Harsdorff, Marek - 2010

Productive electricity use is widely believed to contribute to positive impacts of electrification projects. This paper investigates these impacts by comparing the performance of micro manufacturing enterprises in grid-covered and non-covered villages in Northern Benin. Using firm-level data,...

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Public Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines

Kvasnicka, Michael - 2010

Tobacco control policies have proliferated in many countries in recent years, in particular youth access laws and public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set...

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Fiscal stimulus: A neoclassical perspective

Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2009

Can a large-scale defcit spending program speed up recovery after recession? To answer that question we calibrate a standard neoclassical growth model with US data and assume that an exogenous shock has driven aggregate output far below steady-state level. We calibrate the model such that a...

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It takes two to Tango: Lobbies and the political business cycle

Horgos, Daniel; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009

With interest groups significantly affecting economic performance (according to Mancur Olson) and a vital interest of governments in economic growth and low unemployment in order to win elections, there should be a link between political business cycles and the evolution of lobbies over time...

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Interest groups and economic performance: Some new evidence

Zimmermann, Klaus W.; Horgos, Daniel - 2008

Mancur Olson's theory of the decline of nations is path-breaking in political economics. It has been tested cross-sectionally in numerous empirical studies. We survey the existing results briefly, with a special focus on studies using the number of lobbies as an exogenous variable. Using data...

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Gewerkschaften im Bundestag: Gemeinwohlorientiert oder Lobbyisten?

Berlemann, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009

This article focuses on the role of unionized members of the parliament. Referring to the famous study by Freeman and Medoff (1984) and considering the more recent literature we first review unions' political power at the example of the US. We conclude that trade unions have not been very...

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