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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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8778
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Francesc
Ortega
Ryuichi
Tanaka
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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives
This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country, emphasizing the political economy implications. In particular, we are interested on ...
(published as 'Immigration and the political economy of public education' in: G. Freeman and N, Mirilovic (eds.), Handbook of Migration and Social Policy. Elgar, 2016, 121–136 )
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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8777
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David
P.
Varady
Reinout
Kleinhans
Maarten
van Ham
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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community ...
(published as 'The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States' in: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2015, 9 (3), 253-276. )
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L26, L31, R23
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8776
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Adriana
Di Liberto
Marco
Sideri
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 38, 12-41)
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O11, O43, C26
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8773
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Aysit
Tansel
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor ...
(revised version published as 'Transitions across Labor Market States Including Formal/Informal Division in Egypt' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1674-1695.)
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J21, J24, J40, J63, O17
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8772
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Mahmoud
Arayssi
Ali
Fakih
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Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2015, 42 (8), 717-732)
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G2, O16, P48
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8771
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Junhui
Qian
Le
Wang
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The Inequality-Growth Plateau
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 17-20)
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C5, C14, O4
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8770
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India
Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (4), 739 - 761)
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I21, I22, I24
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8769
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Adam
S.
Booij
Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (2), 547 - 578)
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I22, I28
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8768
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Eva
Feron
Trudie
Schils
Bas
ter Weel
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Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Additional Value of Teacher Assessment in Predicting Student Ability
This research investigates to what extent subjective teacher assessment of children's ability adds to the use of test scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164 (4), 391-418)
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I21, I28, J24
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8767
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Are College Costs Worth It? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions
This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 296-310.)
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I21, I22, I23
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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