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Vouchers, Public School Response and the Role of Incentives: Evidence from Florida

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

years. Exploiting the institutional details of the 1999 program, I analyze the incentives built into the system and … investigate whether the threatened public schools behaved strategically to respond to incentives. There is strong evidence that … they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school level data, a difference- in-differences estimation …

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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay

Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

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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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004

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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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...

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Can Increasing Private School Participation and Monetary Loss in a Voucher Program Affect Public School Performance? Evidence from Milwaukee

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

impacts on public school incentives and performance are concerned. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and …

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Do Vouchers Lead to Sorting under Random Private School Selection? Evidence from the Milwaukee Voucher Program

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the impact of voucher design on student sorting, and more specifically investigates whether there are feasible ways of designing vouchers that can reduce or eliminate student sorting. It studies these questions in the context of the first five years of the Milwaukee voucher...

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An Analysis of Disparities in Education: The Case of Primary School Completion Rates in Bolivia

Ochoa, Marcelo; Bonifaz, Alejandra - EconWPA - 2003

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...

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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective

Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004

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...

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Determinants of Economic Growth and the Role of Human Capital in New Growth Models [in Turkish]

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005

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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Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid – Microeconometric Evidence for Germany.

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - EconWPA - 2004

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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