education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …

concentrate education's subsides at the basic school rather than at college education. …

system respond to changes in demand for education, and iii) whether state schools respond to competition from non … econometric model we estimate education value added, instead of relying on absolute quality of school graduates. We find that non …

Public effort in support of higher education – measured as state funding per thousand dollars of personal income – has … revolt institutions for state effort on behalf of higher education. These provisions have a statistically significant and … caused by these provisions is critical for the future of state-supported higher education. …

The Education Reform Program launched in the mid-1990s by the Government of Bolivia had important accomplishments …, particularly by increasing the coverage of primary education. However, the high rates of coverage observed at national level … conceal the inequality in the distribution of schooling across children from different income groups, from indigenous …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … valued welfare measure. It proposes a lexicographic L*-ordering, where the first rank criterion corresponds to an inequality …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …