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This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...
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not enough to overturn my conclusions. Instrumentation reveals that reverse causality running from education to natural …
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This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
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We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...
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role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Education has a significant reducing effect …
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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 … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …
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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 …
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In this paper, we argue that the condition of education and the economy of the low performing sub-Saharan African … high costs of education relative to income and the skill premium can cause the economy to be trapped in such a steady state …. Moreover, such a policy outperforms the abolition of child labor and the institution and enforcement of compulsory education …
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different predictions about the effect of children's education level and number of children on intergenerational transfers …
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way of reducing competition among localities (cities). If cities finance their public services with a property tax that … particularly relevant to the provision of primary and secondary education. We argue that the extent of the differentiation in the …
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