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Global challenges in the economics of education : basic skills, natural disasters, and civic engagement

Gust, Sarah - 2025

Sarah Gust führte diese Studie während ihrer Tätigkeit am ifo Institut durch. Die Studie wurde im September 2024 abgeschlossen und als Dissertation an der Volkswirtschaftlichen Fakultät der LMU München angenommen. Sie besteht aus drei eigenständigen empirischen Essays, die...

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(Not) going to school in times of climate change : natural disasters and student achievement

Gust, Sarah - 2024

their impact on student achievement by combining US county-level data on FEMA disaster declarations with the Stanford … post disaster. Counties with above-average per-pupil expenditure show quicker recovery. The study sheds light on effect … heterogeneity by gender, socio-economic background, and disaster characteristics. …

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Economics of Natural Disasters : A Machine-generated Literature Overview

Goel, Prarthna Agarwal (ed.); Chowdhury, Joyita Roy (ed.); … - 2024

concerning disaster relief. On the empirical front, studies showing causal and associative relationships between disasters and … socio-economic variables are important for estimating disaster-related losses and making appropriate policy suggestions. The … agencies. It discusses fiscal pressures caused due to disasters and existing policies related to disaster-risk mitigation and …

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Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship : an attention-based view

Wei, Shihao; Boudreaux, Christopher John; Su, Zhongfeng; … - In: Small business economics : an international journal 62 (2024) 4, pp. 1409-1427

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Global challenges in the economics of education: Basic skills, natural disasters, and civic engagement

Gust, Sarah - 2025

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Economic growth in the Potterian economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010

Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between its assumptions and the situation in the real world, as reflected …

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Human capital and economic growth in Greece : evidence from the Toda-Yamamoto approach

Garafas, Georgios; Sotiropoulos, Ioannis; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 70 (2020) 3/4, pp. 6-11

postwar Greece. For this purpose, we use annual time series data from 1952 to 2017 retrieved from the Penn World Table (PWT …

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Productivity Drivers in British Columbia: Strategic Areas for Improvement

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2008

A brief analysis of British Columbia’s productivity performance and the state of the drivers of this performance reveals that five areas merit additional focus and research. They are, in the proposed order of completion: Education and literacy, including professional qualifications and...

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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive politics in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

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Technological change and inequality in the very long run

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020

In this paper we investigate the impact of technological change on inequalityin the presence of a landed elite using a standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset of the fertility transition, technological progress...

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