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This Paper discusses reforms of Italian secondary schools’ curriculum and funding in light of theoretical considerations, of the experience of other countries, and of empirical evidence. We briefly review socio-economic views on the schooling system’s role in shaping the social structure and...
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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components play a substantial role as witnessed by the impact of the design of several policies, namely education, intellectual …
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strengthens the forces of comparative advantage. Finally, we examine an aspect of education policy concerning the spread of human …
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We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d’Education Prioritaire), a programme started in 1982 that channels …
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This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous … individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the … probability that a child has high ability. Education policies consist of a subsidy on private educational investments and possibly …
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note that it is crucial that transfers to education are combined with intrafamily transfers to old-family members. We … characterise the set of self-enforcing transfers and show that there is a downward bias in the family provision of education. This … points to a number of potential effects of education policy and public pensions on human capital formation. …
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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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achievements in education as well as its internationalization of education. Since 1978, the landmark for the foundation of the … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally … producing serious scholars and a tremendous amount of scholarly output; more and more Chinese students seek higher education …
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Recent research demonstrates that imperfect information about returns to education distorts schooling investments … the higher education production function, particularly for higher ability students, such information is insufficient for …
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