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Economic Crisis and Fiscal Reforms in Latin America
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Hallerberg, Mark - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The recent financial crisis has initiated pressures for not only policy reform but also fundamental institutional fiscal reforms. This paper explores the connection between economic crises and fiscal institutional reforms in a region that has experienced plenty of both in recent years, namely...
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Location and the return to education
Kolesnikova, Natalia - In: Economic Synopses (2011)
The return to a college education varies widely across U.S. cities. …
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STUDY REGARDING THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SPENDING ON EDUCATION AT EU LEVEL THROUGH BENCHMARKING
Mihaiu, Diana - In: Studies in Business and Economics 5 (2010) 3, pp. 201-214
The objective of this paper is to review the efficiency of public expenditure for education in Romania compared to … public spending efficiency for education by benchmarking at the EU level, representative indicators must be chosen in order … to quantify the volume of efforts and effects. The effort of education was represented by public expenditure on education …
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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799738
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Education, Migration and Source Community Incomes in Rural China
Karpestam, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011
Residents in rural China doubt the benefits from education, yet there is empirical evidence supporting positive effects … in urban and rural areas. This paper investigates whether education affects a variety of income attainment indicators for … households in rural China, using a household survey from the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning. The analysis estimates education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799781
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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment
Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799783
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Cambio y continuidad en la escuela peruana: una mirada institucional a la implementación de programas, procesos y proyectos educativos
Benavides, Martín (contributor); Neira, Paul (contributor) - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
A partir de su visita a las aulas, los autores ofrecen elementos útiles para analizar qué ocurre en diversas áreas de este ámbito educativo peruano. ¿Cómo adquieren sentido los discursos sobre la historia del Perú según el contexto institucional en el que se dictan? ¿De qué manera...
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Incidence and Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Canada: the Role of Family Background and Immigrant Status
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
education in the selection of economic immigrants is creating an imbalance between the supply of both first and second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800179
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Education and Household Welfare in Sri Lanka from 1985 to 2006
Himaz, Rozana; Aturupane, Harsha - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
This paper looks at the impact of education on household economic welfare in Sri Lanka over twenty years from 1985 to … the incremental value to household welfare shows a distinct jump for an extra year of education at levels where important … national examinations are completed.  Moreover, higher quantiles systematically enjoy greater incremental welfare to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800183
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Digital Europe – Chance for Job in Hungary
Varallyai, Laszlo; Herdon, Miklos - In: AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics 2 (2010) 1
The 35 percents of EU total population use the advanced Internet services. This rate is very low and has to increase in the next years, because the employed person needs ICT user's skills. At the first level the digital literacy and at the second level the higher knowledge of ICT acquiring is...
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