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A Brief History of Education in the United States
(American Economic Association, 1999)
This essay is the companion piece to about 550 individual data series on education to be included in the updated Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press 2000, forthcoming). ...
Corporate Ownership Around the World
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1999)
We present data on ownership structures of large corporations in 27 wealthy economies, making an effort to identify ultimate controlling shareholders of these firms. We find that, except in economies with very good shareholder ...
Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910–1940
(MIT Press - Journals, 1999)
The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940
(American Economic Association, 1999)
The American university was shaped in a formative period from 1890 to 1940 long before the rise of federal funding, the G.I. Bill, and mass higher education. Both the scale and scope of institutions of higher education ...
Key Currencies After the Euro
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1999)
The quality of government
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 1999)
We investigate empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries. We assess government performance using measures of government intervention, public sector efficiency, public ...
Public Policies and Private Saving in Mexico
(México : Departamento de Economía del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 1999)
Increasing the rate of saving is an important priority for many emerging market countries. This paper focuses on Mexico and discusses a variety of policies through which the government of Mexico could stimulate a higher ...
Zipf's Law and the Growth of Cities
(American Economic Association, 1999-05)