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Evaluating the “Threat” Effects of Grade Repetition. Exploiting the 2001 Reform by the French-Speaking Community of Belgium
BELOT, Michèle; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
Like active labour market programmes (ALPMs), grade repetition could generate two types of effects. Better/worse outcomes due to programme participation (i.e. the fact that pupils repeat a particular grade). This is what the existing literature on grade repetition has focused on. Another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350374
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Grade retention and educational attainment. Exploiting the 2001 Reform by the French-Speaking Community of Belgium and Synthetic Control Methods
BELOT, Michele; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
This paper evaluates the effects of grade retention on attainment by exploiting a reform introduced in 2001 in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium whereby the possibility of grade retention in grade 7 was reintroduced. It uses the Synthetic Control Method to identify the best possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505471
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Regional school comparison and school choice : how do they relate to student performance ? Evidence from PISA 2003
Maresa, SPRIETSMA - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006
School choice and accountability have become popular educational policies in the US and the UK. In Europe, such policies are less often applied and therefore less subject to research. The present paper uses recent international data to study the impact of schools comparing their pupil’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984756
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Import Restraints and Quality Choice Under Vertical Differentiation
Boccard, N.; Wauthy, X. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1998
firm choose their quality level before engaging a price competition in the final stage. We first show that the indirect … effect of the quota on the sales of the domestic producer are different depending on whether his product quality is the high … the pricing game and go backward to tackle the quality choice game : for loose quotas, both firms choose Top quality while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985248
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An Illustration of the Returns to Training Programmes: The Evaluation of the “Qualifying Contract" in France
COSTA, S. PESSOA e; ROBIN, S. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
We evaluate the labour market outcomes of a French training programme for youth, using a non-experimental sample of individuals who completed their studies (or dropped out) in 1998 and were observed until 2003. We use propensity score matching to estimate the impact of participation on three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505499
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Quelle place pour les incitations dans la gestion du personnel enseignant?
LARRÉ, Françoise; PLASSARD, Jean-Michel - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
A l’heure de l’économie du savoir et de la connaissance, l’éducation est devenue un enjeu majeur et l’enseignement a acquis une place centrale dans le processus de production d’éducation. Dans ces conditions, sont recherchés les moyens d’augmenter la performance des enseignants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505594
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Free Higher Education - Regressive Transfer or Implicit Loan ?
Vincent, VANDENBERGHE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
Should access to higher education remain ‘free’ ? Theoretical answers to this question are at least twofold. First, public higher education is said to be regressive as a priviliged minority profits from extra human capital, and all the private benefits it generates, while the general public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984762
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Paying after Graduation. An Empirical assessment of loans wit Income Forgiveness and Human Capital Contracts
Vincent, VANDENBERGHE; Olivier, DEBANDE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
There are many arguments supporting greater private contribution to higher education costs, particularly in Europe. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984779
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What Does it Take to Achieve Equality of Opportunity in Education ? An Empirical Investigation Based on Brazilian Data
F.D., WALTENBERG; V. , VANDENBERGHE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
opportunity. We show that the simultaneous redistribution of monetary and non-moneary inputs, like peer group quality (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984852
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Cost Efficiency and Feasibility of Education Policy in the Presence of Local Social Externalities
Vandenberghe, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999
This paper is a theoretical exercise aimed at developing an economic analysis of an education system in which the educational output - apart from each individual's propensity to invest in himself or the level of per-pupil spending - is heavily conditioned by the way non-monetary inputs (peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984918