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We evaluate the effect of the federal students’ financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....
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This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...
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children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on …
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This paper analyses the impact of an Indonesian scholarship program, which was implemented in 1998 to preserve access to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process followed a decentralised design, involving both geographic...
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of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … the rates envisioned by the goals have done so in many cases by accepting dramatic declines in schooling quality, failing …
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identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of … 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to …
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offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India … and improving the quality of education - in order to lower child labor and increase schooling. …
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This paper seeks to examine what factors are associated with student labour force participation in Northern Ireland in … increases the probability of labour force participation. The author suggests that some of these results are due to the …
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This paper examines the impact of congressional representation of a university through district representation or an alma mater affiliation on the distribution of research funding to research and doctoral universities in the United States. Because appropriations are allocated to agencies on an...
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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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