accumulation. With the new setup, it is possible to show that the optimal time at school's will decrease while the human capital … concentrate education's subsides at the basic school rather than at college education. …

allocation. The program has increased enrolment, especially for primary school aged children from poor rural households. Moreover …

children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on … same class. Together these features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children s potential time in school to … their fourth birthday. Second, children having their birthday before, during and after the summer holiday are placed in the …

. This paper analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the impacts of these changes on public school performance in … impacts on public school incentives and performance are concerned. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and …

crucial features of the Milwaukee voucher program - random private school selection and the absence of topping up of vouchers …. In the context of a theoretical model, it argues that random private school selection alone cannot prevent student … sorting. However, random private school selection coupled with the absence of topping up can preclude sorting by income …

that children from low-income families, indigenous groups and/or rural areas are less likely to finish primary school … conceal the inequality in the distribution of schooling across children from different income groups, from indigenous …-groups concentration and high dispersion of the population, are basic characteristics of municipalities with low primary school completion …

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a … mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has …

programs on public schools typically focuses on student and mean school scores. This paper tries to go inside the black box to … they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school level data, a difference- in-differences estimation … expense of higher performing students. Second, consistent with incentives, they focused mostly on writing rather than reading …