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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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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...

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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico

de Janvry, Alain; Dubois, Pierre; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the dynamic educational process including the endogeneity and uncertainty of performance at school (passing grades) and the effect of a...

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Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes

Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...

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Which club should I attend, Dad?: Targeted socialization and production

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study a model that integrates productive and socialization efforts with network choice and parental investments. We characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of this game. We first show that individuals underinvest in productive and social effort, but that solving only the investment...

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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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The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects … German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe … from East Germany. Similar to foreign guest-workers, German immigrants are more likely to work in blue collar jobs; they do …

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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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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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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 specific sense of irrelevance of parental income for university attendance. We show that, even if households can borrow in the capital market, the laissez-faire equilibrium exhibits...

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