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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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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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-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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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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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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large numbers of students, or other practices that cast doubt on the sustainability or exportability of their techniques …
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strategy as well as a regression discontinuity analysis, I find that the threatened schools tended to focus more on students … expense of higher performing students. Second, consistent with incentives, they focused mostly on writing rather than reading … not much evidence of relative reclassification of low performing students in to special education categories exempt from …
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We evaluate the effect of the federal students’ financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher … students had to repay the full loan until 1990. Thereafter, 50 percent of the student aid has been offered as a non …
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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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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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