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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...
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Educational scores: How does Russia fare?
Amini, Chiara; Commander, Simon - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 508-527
This paper uses large multi-country datasets on educational scores – namely PISA and TIMSS – to examine the factors associated with educational outcomes. In particular, it distinguishes between individual and family background factors and those emanating from the school or institutional...
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College Diversity and Investment Incentives
Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...
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How can education policy improve income distribution? an empirical analysis of education stages and measures on income inequality
Keller, Katarina R.I. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2010) 2, pp. 51-77
This paper examines the individual effects of primary, secondary and higher education on income distribution, using … different measures of investment rates in education: enrollment rates, public expenditures and public expenditures per student …, in each education stage. The panel data method is utilized in estimating the effects of different stages and measures of …
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Structural Reforms to Reduce Unemployment and Restore Competitiveness in Ireland
Pina, Álvaro - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
enhance product-market competition, improve innovation efforts and ameliorate the quality of education, which are key to …
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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Politique éducative et marché du travail en Afrique du Sud. Une analyse en EGC
Maisonnave, Hélène; Decaluwé, Bernard - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 76 (2010) 3, pp. 289-335
South Africa faces skills shortage and huge inequalities in its education system inherited from the former Apartheid … education on students? behaviors and on the labor market in long run. We find that this policy improves graduation rates and …
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Access to public schools and the education of migrant children in China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - In: China Economic Review 26 (2013) C, pp. 75-88
key factor determining the quality of education that migrant children receive. …
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A comparative analysis of education costs and outcomes: The United States vs. other OECD countries
Wolff, Edward N.; Baumol, William J.; Saini, Anne Noyes - In: Economics of Education Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 1-21
In this paper we confirm the universality of steadily rising education expenditures among OECD nations, as predicted by … future. However, we find that while the level of education costs in America is significantly higher than that of all other … OECD countries, education spending per student in the United States is increasing about as quickly as it is in many other …
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Social and economic perspectives of student unrest
Channaveer R.M. - In: Journal of Global Economy 6 (2010) 2, pp. 149-159
restive outburst all over the world involves youth force especially from the institutions of higher education. Emerging … postmodernism with changing socio-cultural context in the wake of neo-liberalism is a great challenge to the higher education …
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