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lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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Israel’s education system is complicated by multiple streams at the primary and secondary levels and by military … conscription. Population growth and economic expansion have brought a massive increase in demand for all levels of education … of compulsory education. As in other socio-economic spheres, there are significant gaps between Arab-Israelis and the …
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This paper uses a quality disclosure policy, the Nursing Home Quality Initiative, which mandates the public reporting of quality information on selected dimensions, to investigate how nonprofit nursing homes react to economic incentives. I find that nonprofits are as responsive as for-profits to...
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Despite heated debate about the pros and cons of online physician ratings, very little systematic work examines the correlation between physicians’ online ratings and their actual medical performance. Using patients' ratings of physicians at the RateMDs website and the Florida Hospital...
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Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that differential information about provider quality is an important determinant of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the temporary presence of a website that publicly...
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Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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The non-resident student market brings monetary resources to colleges and universities in the U.S. Previous research on price-setting has been predominantly limited to public institutions. This study offers geospatial indicators to capture local competition and influence from public and private...
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education ; research quality ; teaching quality ; university budget constraint ; research elite ; binary divide …We address the following question: how does a higher education funding system influence the trade-off that universities … university funding budget constraint. In particular, we derive the feasible sets that face universities under such systems and …
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The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school …, human capital accumulation and social mobility. In the vocational education and training system, resources continue to be … market needs requires active participation of social partners, students and education institutions. The rapid expansion of …
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A key higher education policy question is about the financing of this sector. Who, why and how higher education should … and professors have voiced their demands for greater funding. This document advocates the need for shared higher education … econometric calculations of the respective benefits generated by tertiary education, with approximately one half of the total …
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