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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076552
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance
Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001
inputs commonly used in the literature on school quality. Finally, we compare the unadjusted ranking of universities based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413017
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413020
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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004
identify its effects on test scores. We find that allowing disadvantaged pupils to start school one month earlier increases … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561531
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Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice; Gyselinck, Paul - EconWPA - 2005
This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data culled from the 2 rounds of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), we explore different sets of exogenous instruments that rely on demand and supply side sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076522
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076924
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ARE THERE ANY CLASS SIZE EFFECTS ON EARLY CAREER EARNINGS IN WEST GERMANY?
Baumgartner, Hans J. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of school quality on early career earnings. Using confidential district level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076932
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School Characteristics and the Demand for College
Bezmen, Trisha; II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996
the number of public-school applications but a negative impact on private- school applications. Finally, we find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125047
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Generalized Knowledge Index: The Production, and Imputed Gross Future and Present Values of Doctoral Dissertations across Some African Countries
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2004
The notion that lack of knowledge undermines the economic performance of African countries is deeply and widely held to be true. Yet evidence for the basis of that truth is few and far in-between. This paper first describes a production function approach to the creation of knowledge of African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125639