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Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines : A Methodological Note
Cuenca, Janet S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
in the analysis as applied on government spending on education in the Philippines. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363554
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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the … emphasising provision of education in Pakistan, as well as the trend in coverage and public sector spending on education … government education expenditure. The rural areas of Pakistan are the more disadvantaged in the provision of the education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365048
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Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078638
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Lochner, Lance; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084486
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Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951010
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Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field
Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
training with the public higher education system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951022
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Financial Aid Policy: Lessons from Research
Dynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In the nearly fifty years since the adoption of the Higher Education Act of 1965, financial aid programs have grown in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951357
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The Returns to the Federal Tax Credits for Higher Education
Hoxby, Caroline; Bulman, George B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Three tax credits benefit households who pay tuition and fees for higher education. The credits have been justified as … an investment: generating more educated people and thus more earnings and externalities associated with education. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271417
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Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California
Murnane, Richard J.; Steele, Jennifer L.; Willett, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This study capitalizes on a natural experiment that occurred in California between 2000 and 2002. In those years, the state offered a competitively allocated $20,000 incentive called the Governor's Teaching Fellowship (GTF) aimed at attracting academically talented, novice teachers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248907
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Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy
Scott-Clayton, Judith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
One justification for public support of higher education is that prospective students, particularly those from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652852