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The Design of Optimal Education Policies

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The paper studies the optimal education policy of a budget-constrained utilitarian government. Households differ in … information. Households can choose to use private education, but cannot borrow to finance it. The results we obtain are striking …. The optimal education policy is elitist: it increases the spread between the education achievement of the bright and the …

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Equal Opportunities in Education: Market Equilibrium and Public Policy

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper investigates whether individual decisions lead to equality of opportunity in education, defined in the …

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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The Origin of Utility

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper proposes an explanation for the universal human desire for increasing consumption. It holds that it was moulded in evolutionary times by a mechanism known to biologists as sexual selection, whereby a certain trait - observable consumption - is used by members of one sex to signal...

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Affirmative Action and Efficiency in Education

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups … differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals … from groups with relatively few high ability individuals should receive more education than equally able individuals from …

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The Design of the University System

De Fraja, Gianni; Valbonesi, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper compares the organisation of the university sector under private provision with the structure which would be chosen by a welfare maximising government. It studies a general equilibrium model where universities carry out research and teach students. To attend university, and earn...

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Privatisation in Poland: What Was the Government Trying to Achieve?

De Fraja, Gianni; Roberts, Barbara M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses the sequencing of privatisation to infer the objective pursued by the Polish government in the privatisation of its large manufacturing firms in the second half of the 1990's. We construct a model of mixed oligopoly, and use it to evaluate the privatisation process; our analysis...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

partly a result of a rise in occupational segregation and partly the general rise in wage inequality. Policies to reduce the …

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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