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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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. 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 …
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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 …
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that children from low-income families, indigenous groups and/or rural areas are less likely to finish primary school …-groups concentration and high dispersion of the population, are basic characteristics of municipalities with low primary school completion … that could be undertaken in the poorly performing school districts to improve their ability to improve their performance …
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Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a …'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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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 … rule changes in Florida suggest that these policy changes have been a response to public school behavior. …
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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 … same class. Together these features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children s potential time in school to … identify its effects on test scores. We find that allowing disadvantaged pupils to start school one month earlier increases …
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While several cross-sectional studies (La Porta et. al. 2002, Norton 2002) examine institutional and cultural determinants of economic freedom, changes in economic freedom remain unexamined. I construct a measure of median voter preferences and find changes in voter preferences for economic...
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A decision maker is contemplating an action whose outcome is state dependent. She has a ‘prior’ over the states of the world and before choosing an action, she can consult an ‘expert’. We model the communication game between the decision maker and the expert as a ‘cheap-talk’ game....
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Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of stories in the news media, no one has examined whether reform—be it democratization or economic liberalization or both—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides...
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