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Politics before pupils? : electoral cycles and school resources in India

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2014

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in...

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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unication education variable in the BASiD data set

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016

Using combined data from the German Pension Insurance and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD), this study proposes different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on education-related periods that are creditable for...

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Democracy, education and the quality of government

Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Panizza, Ugo - In: Journal of economic growth 20 (2015) 4, pp. 333-363

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Schooling resources, educational institutions, and student performance : the international evidence

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international … institutions, scrutiny of achievement, and teacher influence on teaching methods. A large influence of teacher unions on curriculum … are not caused by differences in schooling resources but are mainly due to differences in educational institutions. …

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