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The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Seltzer, Andrew J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

natural experiment. We study exam results prior and subsequent to the implementation of a remedial mathematics course that was …

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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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Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England and Wales: What Do We Know?

Manning, Alan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically...

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Education, Social Cohesion and Economic Growth

Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Analysis of the contribution of education to growth through its role in promoting a common culture indicates that when different cultural groups separately determine the social content of their school curricula excessive polarization can result, with less than optimal growth. The optimal...

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Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany

Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular, have been of prior concern to policy and to research. Using a rich panel data set this paper contributes to this literature by investigating factors determining the demand for...

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Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives … attendance was verified through photographs with time and date stamps, and his salary was made a non-linear function of his … attendance. The teacher absence rate changed from 42 percent in the comparison schools to 21 percent in the treatment schools. To …

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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …

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The Effects of Overcrowded Housing on Children's Performance at School

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In France, almost one in five 15 year olds lives in a home with at least two children per bedroom. More than 60% of these adolescents have been held back in primary or middle school, a proportion that is more than 20 points higher than it is on average for adolescents of the same age. This Paper...

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An Exercise in IV estimation with Different Instruments

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Several recent studies based on 'exogenous' sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates. Card (1995a) suggests that these results can be...

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