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Equity and Achievement in the Chilean School Choice Experience

Ostoic, Carolina; Mizala, Alejandra; Romaguera, Pilar - Econometric Society - 2004

The aim of this paper is to analyze, using a hierarchical linear model, the degree to which a system of choice, as the one implemented in Chile since the beginning of the 80â€™s, can promote student achievement and equity in the social distribution of achievement. Using data from a...

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Should Educational Policies Be Regressive?

Moreira, Humberto; Gottlieb, Daniel - Econometric Society - 2004

In this paper, we show that when the government is able to transfer wealth between generations, regressive policies are no longer optimal. The optimal educational policy can be decentralized through appropriate Pigouvian taxes and credit provision, is not regressive, and provides equality of...

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On the Costs and Benefits of a Mixed Educational Regime

Tanaka, Ryuichi - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper studies the costs and benefits of a mixed educational regime in which tax-financed public schools and tuition-financed private schools coexist. In the model, households are not allowed to borrow for education, but have a choice to educate their children in a public or a private...

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Why Is There No Harvard Among Japanese Private Universities?

Naoi, Michio; Akabayashi, Hideo - Econometric Society - 2004

The social and academic reputation of private universities in Japan is generally far behind the national universities. We argue that heavy subsidy and the low tuition of national universities determined by the central government are both responsible for making the production of high academic...

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School Choice, Incentives, and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Gallego, Francisco A. - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper examines the effects of inter-school competition on student outcomes by using exogenous variation in the availability of private schools in Chile. Given that naïve estimates of the effects of competition on student outcomes are biased by endogenous entry of schools, this paper uses...

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Why Children Work, Attend School, or Stay Idle: Theory and Evidence

Ranjan, Priya - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of child labor, schooling, and `idleness' (neither work nor school), with particular emphasis on the roles of child ability and credit constraints in determining these decisions. We show theoretically that `idleness' may be chosen optimally...

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Equilibrium Sorting of Heterogeneous Consumers Across Locations

Nesheim, Lars - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper develops a model in which a continuum of consumers choose from a continuum of locations indexed by school quality. It computes equilibria that are sustained by an equilibrium price function that matches consumers to different locations based on their willingness to pay for school...

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Signaling and the Education Premium

Kurtzon, Gregory - Econometric Society - 2004

education was being lowered. For example, suppose â€œhighly educatedâ€ referred to a college education. If there were few … college grads, lowering the bar (the most productive non-college grads becoming college grads) would reduce mean college wages … significantly by adding lower productivity workers. Because there would be many non-college grads vs. college grads, a drop in the …

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Marriage Market, Parents' Bargaining Powers, and Children's Education

Park, Cheolsung - Econometric Society - 2004

Whether the family makes decisions as a unit or through a collective decision making process has been tested elsewhere by examining whether the income pooling hypothesis holds or by examining whether premarital assets have significant effects on household consumptions. The results, however, may...

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Social Interactions in Schooling

Rosolia, A.; Cipollone, P. - Econometric Society - 2004

We exploit the 1980 earthquake in southern Italy and the subsequent relief from mandatory military service granted to all males in the regions hit by the seism to estimate the strength of endogenous social interactions in schooling achievements. Preliminary results point to a significant and...

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