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The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government...
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The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755206
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This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703130
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181490
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627821
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This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791369
This paper presents a model of educational production that tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005491393
Wenn ein Unternehmer einen Blick in die Zukunft wagt und sich dazu äußert, wie er sein Unternehmen in 10 oder 20 Jahren sieht, heißt das nicht, dass diese Vorstellungen auch wahr werden. Das hängt von vielen entscheidenden Aspekten ab. Auf einige hat man direkten Einfluss, auf andere jedoch...
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