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Can bribery buy health? : evidence from postcommunist countries
Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga - 2019
Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … bribery and show that bribing for any type of public service, not just for health services, has an adverse impact. We also … find that bribery lowers the quality of services received. Moreover, there are potentially high indirect costs of bribery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139830
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Out-of-field teaching and instructional practices in years 7-10 mathematics classes in Australia : evidence from TALIS 2018
Shah, Chandra; Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. - 2024
To compare 'in-field' versus 'out-of-field' teachers of Years 7-10 mathematics in Australia on key demographic and instructional dimensions, we analysed nationally representative system data collected by the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), one of the world's largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015163373
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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2018
This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in tertiary education is a sequential process made under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131241
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Higher education subsidies and the universal insurance against a short life
Ponthière, Grégory - 2024
This paper examines the potential role of higher education subsidies as an insurance device against the risk of having a short life, that is, as a device reducing the variance in lifetime well-being due to unequal longevities. We use a two-period dynamic OLG economy with human capital and risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015163175
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Did the Bologna Process challenge the German apprenticeship system? : evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020
Starting in 1999, the Bologna Process reformed the German five-year study system for a first degree into the three-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged the German apprenticeship system that offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303481
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
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Beyond higher education : university establishments and childhood maltreatment
Li, Yanjun; Xinyan, Liu; Ryuichi, Tanaka - 2025
Violence against children, especially trafficking, is a global concern. This paper proposes that nearby educational institutions can help reduce such violence. Using a quasi-experiment in China from 1999, where university campuses were exogenously established, the study shows that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015357251
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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is … that is lower by 10 pp. In addition, Google Trends data show that public interest in corruption is correlated with interest … in vaccination. The insight from our analysis is that corruption affects not only the supply but also the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704633
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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We … payments, limiting the state's economic development capability. In the face of extensive corruption, it is challenging for the … transparent, efficient and effective, and follows the rule of law. The rich and poor possess different views on what is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124550
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Jobs cronyism in public-sector firms
Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256494