Bildung und Wissenschaft sind auch ein Wirtschaftsfaktor. Die regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung dieses Wirtschaftsfaktors läßt sich anhand der Nachfrage-, Produktivitäts- und Standorteffekte der Sach- und Personalausgaben für die Hochschulbildungs- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen empirisch...

It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher...

Promotions are at the same time beloved and feared by both food retailers and branded goods manufacturers in today’s retail environment. Beloved because they attract smart customers and generate an immediate effect on a brand’s sale. Feared because there is uncertainty about the...

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...