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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 … ability students and students from higher social backgrounds have higher passing rates and collect more credit points when … assigned to (higher) reward groups. Students in the reward groups, however, do not report to have studied more hours. …

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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...

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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...

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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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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 information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), it is demonstrated that class size has no discernible effect on early career earnings. This finding is robust to changes in...

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School Characteristics and the Demand for College

Bezmen, Trisha; II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996

We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...

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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...

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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

-fold increase in the number of private schools and almost a four-fold increase in the number of choice students. Moreover, due to …

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

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

sorting where private schools can screen students. However, the publicly funded U.S. voucher programs require private schools … to accept all students unless oversubscribed and to pick students randomly if oversubscribed. This paper focuses on two …

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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...

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