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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2012
of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948840
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Efficient Education Policy - A Second-Order Elasticity Rule
Richter, Wolfram F. - CESifo - 2010
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labor, education, and saving, efficient education policy is characterized for a Ramsey-like scenario in which the government is constrained to use linear instruments. It is shown that education should be effectively subsidized if, and only...
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2010
Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...
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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment
Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd; Suleymanoglu, Utku - CESifo - 2013
Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
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Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition
Richter, Wolfram F. - CESifo - 2009
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey’s Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient...
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Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth
Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - CESifo - 2010
This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. Government expenditures have to be financed by linear instruments so that growth equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572520
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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2010
Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately … the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides … a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic participation. This paper examines the causal implications of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656
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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently when Qualified Labour is Mobile
Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - CESifo - 2011
The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853857