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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance

Lee, Kyung-Gon; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures...

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Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread phenomenon in Turkey. Private tutoring centers are commonly referred to as "dersane" in Turkish. This...

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Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?

Chevalier, Arnaud; Conlon, Gavan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK. Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males. The rise in participation in higher education also led to a greater sorting of students and an increase in the...

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Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey: Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper first describes the educational system in Turkey an the two national examinations for advancing upper levels of schooling which give raise to the demand for private tutoring called “dersane” in Turkish. Second, the evolution of the Private tutoring Centers (PTC) are described and...

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Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Arabsheibani, Reza; Staneva, Anita V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Finding an instrument that is orthogonal to the disturbance term in the wage equation has been a topic of great deal of debate. Recently, Chesson et al. (2006) proposed that higher discount rates are significantly associated with a range of sexual behaviours, including having sex before age of...

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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual … expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries …. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations …

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Chancengleichheit und lebenslanges Lernen: Zur Zukunft der Bildung in Deutschland

Ritzen, Jo; Hinte, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...

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Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device

Ketel, Nadine; Linde, Jona; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...

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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised Propensity Score of Hirano and Imbens, which relies on...

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