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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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Gender quotas : challenging the boards, performance, and the stock market
Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2016
, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an …
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Safeguarding quality of higher education in the Netherlands : closing the gap between policy and research
Hartog, Joop - 2016 - This draft: December 23 2015
I will outline the institutional structure of monitoring and improving the quality of higher education in The …
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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003
This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …
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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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Choosing between school systems
Meier, Volker - 2000
Hierarchical and comprehensive school systems are compared with respect to efficiency. At given ability, a student?s probability of not completing school rises with increasing mean ability in class. Both school systems can yield identical average failure rates. Given that output losses in case...
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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary … government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of … time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent governments. The two types of government differ in their education policies …
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