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modern, conceptually clear and easy to mobilize in policy design. In this paper, we apply Roemer’s theory to education policy … close to the end of compulsory education). Using Brazilian data, we find that implementing an equal-opportunity policy … education production function, we then identify ways of reducing financial reallocations needed to achieve equality of …
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This paper examines the dynamics of the skill supply and its incidence on economic growth in the presence of education …, cross-country différences in long-term macroeconomic adjustment to education policies may be attributed, among other factors …, to the existence of a congestion effect in the education System. …
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Why in some urban areas do rich and poor households cohabit at the community level while, in others, we observe a sorting by income? To answer this question I develop a two-community general equilibrium framework of school quality, residential choice and tax decision. The model predicts that in...
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We propose a method to compute an equilibrium solution for the monocentric city model with traffic congestion, and to quantify the impact of cordon tolls on social surplus. The focus of this paper is on the comparison of road pricing of one and two cordons, with the no toll and first-best...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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complement each other in increasing both school and teacher effort. We estimate an education production function controlling for …
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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 foots the bill. A frequent reply is that higher education students …
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