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Public education expenditures and private school enrollment [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2015
AbstractIn this paper, I investigate whether increases in public education expenditures lead to reductions in private school enrollment. In order to deal with the endogeneity of public expenditures, I use as a natural experiment the 1998 FUNDEF reform in Brazil that caused exogenous variations in local public school funding.
openaire   +1 more source

Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Principles, Engineering and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride have emerged as a promising candidate for quantum information science. This review examines the fundamentals of these quantum emitters, including their level structures, defect engineering, and their possible chemical structures.
Thi Ngoc Anh Mai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Public Education Expenditure Cause Economic Growth? Comparison of Developed and Developing Countrie [PDF]

open access: yesPakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between public education expenditures and economic growth. The social benefits of education exceed its private benefits. Therefore, education is considered a merit good; if not supplied by
Alvina Sabah Idrees   +1 more
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Public Expenditures on Education and Health in the Kyrgyz Republic before and during the Global Crisis [PDF]

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This paper analyses the public finance performance and the dynamics of government expenditures on education and health in the Kyrgyz Republic in 2007- 2010, when the country was hit by the global economic crisis and then by an internal political crisis ...
Roman Mogilevsky
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Unassisted Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production Coupled with Selective Glucose Oxidation Using Metal Halide Perovskite Photoanodes

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A metal halide perovskite‐based photoanode integrated with a CoNiFe layered double hydroxide (LDH) cocatalyst is reported for selective glucose oxidation reaction (GOR), achieving simultaneous and unassisted photoelectrochemical hydrogen production. This system delivers high photocurrent density, excellent Faradaic efficiency of GOR, and strong techno ...
Shujie Zhou   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expenditure incidence in Africa: microeconomic evidence [PDF]

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In this paper, we examine the progressivity of social sector expenditures in eight sub-Saharan African countries. We employ dominance tests, complemented by extended Gini/concentration coefficients, to determine whether health and education expenditures ...
David E. Sahn, Stephen D. Younger
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Photocatalytic Versus Stoichiometric Hydrogen Generation Using Mesoporous Silicon Catalysts: The Complex Role of Sacrificial Reagents

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study highlights the importance of accounting for stoichiometric hydrogen produced when utilizing Si photocatalysts. The stoichiometric contribution is sacrificial reagent dependent and decreases with increasing sterics around the catalyst surface.
Sarrah H. Putwa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India [PDF]

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Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education expenditures in ...
Zimmermann, Laura
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Determinants of local public expenditures on education: Empirical evidence for Indonesian districts between 2005 and 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We provide an empirical analysis of the factors that drive expenditures on primary and secondary education in Indonesian districts. We use a panel-data set covering 398 districts between 2005 and 2012.
Bischoff, Ivo, Prasetyia, Ferry
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