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Schclarek, Alfredo - 2004

This paper empirically studies the effects of fiscal policy shocks on private consumption. Further, it tries to determine if the level of government bond yield and the unemployment rate affect that relationship. We use yearly data between 1970 and 2000 for thirty-eight countries, of which half...

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Computers and student learning : bivariate and multivariate evidence on the availability and use of computers at home and at school

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We estimate the relationship between students? educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between student achievement and the availability of computers...

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The effect heterogeneity of central exams : evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS-Repeat and PISA

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper uses extensive student-level micro databases of three international student achievement tests to estimate heterogeneity in the effect of external exit exams on student performance along three dimensions. First, quantile regressions show that the effect tends to increase with student...

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2005

It is known that anti-social redistributive activities (rent seeking, tax evasion, corruption, violation of property rights, delay of socially beneficial reforms, etc) hurt the macroeconomy. But it is less known what is the role of government size as a determinant of such activities. We use data...

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Systemic crises and growth

Ranciere, Romain; Tornell, Aaron; Westermann, Frank - 2005

In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...

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Inequality and relative reliance on tariffs : theory and evidence

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in … addition to income taxes) have distributional consequences because the high-quality imported varieties are consumed only by … high-income households. The model predicts a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and the median …

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs …

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How much does violence tax trade?

Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004

We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is based on a panel data set with annual observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 1999, which brings together information from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for...

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The effects of monetary policy : a meta-analysis

De Grauwe, Paul; Costa Storti, Cláudia - 2004

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We use a sample of published papers on the effects of monetary policies in different countries. There is a large variation in the estimated effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We...

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What accounts for international differences in student performance?

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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