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During the Kulturkampf at the end of the nineteenth century, Prussian authorities introducedcentralized inspections to improve school outcomes in particular in Catholic regions. Tomeasure the effect of the reform, I combine unique data on school inspectors with Prussiancounty-level data. I apply...
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports’ R&D content … accounting for its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) the impact of the education gap equals the sum of the governance and openness …
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Does birthright citizenship boost immigrant children's educational participation andsuccess? We address this question relying on a reform of the German naturalization lawin 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 to birthright citizenship. Weisolate the impact of birthright...
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sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
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Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...
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This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
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In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
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The statutory pension system is still the most important income source among seniorcitizens in Germany. Due to increasing disruptions in employment biographies since the1970s and due to the mass unemployment in Eastern Germany since the 1990s, there isa growing fear of post-retirement poverty in...
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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions andinterregional migration are … reduceswages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by auniform unemployment compensation, which …
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