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Global economic crisis and corruption (2014)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & Hinks, T. (2015). Global economic crisis and corruption. Public Choice, 162(3-4), 425-445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0213-z

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We study the effects of the 2008–2009 global economic crisis on the household experience of bribing public officials. The data come from the Life in Transition-2 survey, conducted in 2010 in 30 post-s... Read More about Global economic crisis and corruption.

Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study (2014)
Journal Article
Mearman, A., Pacheco, G., Webber, D. J., Ivlevs, A., & Rahman, T. (2014). Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study. International Review of Economics Education, 17, 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2014.10.002

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. There is considerable literature indicating that class attendance is positively related to academic performance. However, the narrative on what influences students' decisions to attend class is scant. This article examines why st... Read More about Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study.

2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia (2014)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & King, R. M. (2014). 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia. Economics of Education Review, 38, 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.010

One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and... Read More about 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia.

Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2014). Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective. Review of Income and Wealth, 60(S1), S117-S140. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12038

This paper studies the individual and household-level determinants of economic insecurity in post-socialist countries. Exploring subjective, backward- and forward-looking measures of economic insecurity, the paper focuses on: (1) the perceptions of p... Read More about Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective.