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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

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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Economic and political liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

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Determinants of direct democracy

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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance : an empirical analysis

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...

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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state : results with OECD data 1978-93

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2012 - Current Draft: August 2011

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … study whether changes in housing prices affect self-employment entry. -- entrepreneurship ; liquidity constraints ; housing …

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

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shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

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The impact of financial constraints and wealth inequality on international trade flows, capital movements and entrepreneurial migration

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Falvey, Rodney E. - 2014

We introduce financial frictions into a simple two sector model of international trade with heterogeneous agents and investigate the impact of differences in the strength of financial institutions and wealth inequality on trade flows, capital movements and entrepreneurial migration. Distinct...

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