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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We … of the link between government expenditure and education, (iii) the quality of institutions in the recipient country, and …

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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...

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Aid and growth : asymmetric effects?

Dörr, Leo - 2024 - Version: March 2024

This paper provides new empirical findings on the aid-growth relation. We find evidence for considerable asymmetry in the aid-growth relation; i.e., aid cuts have a large negative impact on economic activity, while increasing aid may be ineffective in promoting growth. Development aid thus...

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university …

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- Grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580237

Persistent inefficiency in the higher education sector : evidence from Germany

Gralka, Sabine - 2016

Evaluations of the Higher Education Sector are receiving increased attention, due to the rising expenditures and the … inefficiency is considered in the analysis of the German Higher Education Sector. The comparison reveals that the disregard of …

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The transient and persistent efficiency of Italian and German universities : a stochastic frontier analysis

Agasisti, Tommaso; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2017

Area of Higher Education future measures should hence aim at the country specific structure, not solely at affecting the …

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Where Do Students Go When For-Profit Colleges Lose Federal Aid?

Cellini, Stephanie; Darolia, Rajeev; Turner, Lesley J. - 2017

instead shifts students across higher education sectors. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to …

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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our … a negative relationship between demographic aging and spending on public higher education. In contrast to the hypothesis … under conservative parties or a coalition between social democrats and conservatives spend more on public higher education …

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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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