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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …

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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …

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Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

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Great expectations and hard times : the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism

Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor); … - 2006

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015

Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023

Fossil fuels have shaped the European economy since the industrial revolution. We use new long-run panel data to analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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The business environment in the transition

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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International protection of consumer data

Chen, Yongmin; Hua, Xinyu; Maskus, Keith E. - 2020

We study the international protection of consumer data in a model where data usage benefits firms at the expense of their customers. We show that a multinational firm does not balance this trade-off efficiently if its data usage lacks (full) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference...

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