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Sorting, Education and Inequality
Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123607
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The Cost of Grade Retention
Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students’ subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils with more than three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527528
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The French Zones D'Education Prioritaire: Much Ado About Nothing?
Bénabou, Roland; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d’Education Prioritaire), a programme started in 1982 that channels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124181
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854500
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The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievements: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing all first year requirements before the start of their second academic year. Participants were assigned to a high reward...
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Public Education and the Melting Pot
Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper proposes a theoretical framework that combines the role of education as a cultural melting pot with its … function as an instrument of human capital accumulation. It highlights the important role of public education in promoting … social cohesion: requiring minority parents to pay twice for culturally distinct private education is a powerful incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666774
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Academic Achievements: Grades versus Duration
Brugiavini, Agar; Carraro, Carlo; Kovacic, Matija - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set of independent variables contains information on...
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...
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The Returns from Reducing Corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda
Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
officials' handling of a large education grant program. Combining survey and administrative data, we show that the campaign was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504593
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The Design of Optimal Education Policies
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
information. Households can choose to use private education, but cannot borrow to finance it. The results we obtain are striking …The paper studies the optimal education policy of a budget-constrained utilitarian government. Households differ in …. The optimal education policy is elitist: it increases the spread between the education achievement of the bright and the …
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