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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469720
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153507
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The Economic Costs of Corruption : A Survey and New Evidence
Dreher, Axel; Herzfeld, Thomas - 2006
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption affects economic growth … biases the composition of government expenditures. The second part of the paper estimates the effect of corruption on … calculate the total effect of corruption: An increase of corruption by about one index point reduces GDP growth by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064549
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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066711
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Corruption Around the World : Evidence from a Structural Model
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005
The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071302
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Chapter 18 Teacher Quality
Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 1051-1078). 2006
Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about teacher labor markets and the determinants of teacher effectiveness in the classroom. This chapter reviews...
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Chapter 30 Publicly provided education
Hanushek, Eric A. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2045-2141). 2002
Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024859
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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - Business School, University of Exeter - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and a?ects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative e …?ectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852477
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Corruption Around the World: Evidence from a Structural Model
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - Business School, University of Exeter - 2007
The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. Recent research has shown that … perceived corruption might not be a good indicator of actual corruption in a country. In this paper, we employ a structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852478
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How do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125947