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  "title": "Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World: Evidence from a New Dataset",
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  "summary": "The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries.",
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      "content": "- Coverage: 1981-2011 for 178 countries.\n- Source of data: information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries of economy and finance.\n- Purpose: to construct measures of education attainment in public administrations and to analyze cross-regional patterns, quality-adjusted measures, and applications linking education attainment to public sector outcomes."
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      "heading": "Main findings",
      "content": "- Non quality-adjusted measure:\n  - There is little heterogeneity across regions when considering a non quality-adjusted measure of education attainment in public administrations.\n- Quality-adjusted measure:\n  - Adjusting the measure for quality, using a country wide academic ranking, reveals important cross-regional heterogeneity differing from that of standard measures of education attainment for the general population.\n- Patterns by demographics and seniority:\n  - The dataset uncovers important patterns in public administrations' education attainment along gender and seniority across regions."
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      "content": "- Salary incentives:\n  - The dataset provides some evidence of the importance of salary incentives in attracting highly educated staff.\n- Association with government effectiveness:\n  - The dataset provides some evidence of a positive association between education attainment in public administrations and government effectiveness, with specific outcomes including:\n    - higher tax revenue mobilization,\n    - limiting corruption,\n    - better public finance management,\n    - private market support."
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      "content": "- Pages: 41\n- Volume: 2012\n- Issue: 231\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2012/231\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475510669.001\n- ISBN: 9781475510669\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Authors: Rabah Arezki, Herbert Lui, Marc G Quintyn, Frederik G Toscani\n- Publication date: September 21, 2012\n\nSource: IMF Working Paper \"Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World: Evidence from a New Dataset\", Working Paper No. 2012/231.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp12231 - References\n  - wp12231 - References (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp12231 - References (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/education-attainment-in-public-administration-around-the-world-evidence-from-a-new-dataset-40006"
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    "Coverage: 1981-2011 for 178 countries.",
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