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The labour market participation of Northern Ireland University Students

Bailey, Mark - EconWPA - 2002

This paper seeks to examine what factors are associated with student labour force participation in Northern Ireland in both term-time and vacation making use of Quarterly Labour Force Survey data for the period March 1998 to February 1999. The results suggest female students are more likely to...

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The Effects of Congressional Appropriation Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities

Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

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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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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Trade Liberalization in Agriculture in Developed Nations and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Dwibedi, Jayanta Kumar - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is an attempt to analyze the consequence of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed countries on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three- sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Adult labour and child labour are...

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Does (Private) Education Matter? Recent evidence from international OECD data

V, Vandenberghe; S, Robin - EconWPA - 2003

What follows is an exercise aimed at estimating private vs. public school effect on academic achievement. It is based …

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CHILD LABOUR AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Gupta, Manash Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005

The paper analyzes the implications of trade liberalization on the incidence of child labour in a two-sector general equilibrium framework. The supply function of child labour has been derived from the utility maximizing behaviour of the working families. The paper finds that the effect of trade...

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INCIDENCE OF CHILD LABOUR, FREE EDUCATION POLICY AND ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

The paper analyzes the implications of a subsidy policy on education and different liberalized trade and investment policies on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with informal sector and child labour. The supply function of...

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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying for Migration and Teaching for Staying?

Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2004

Both current and especially new member states of the European Union face incentives to distort the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many...

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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

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

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

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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