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Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...

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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?

Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of...

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Does Participation in 4-H Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Florida

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Timko, Troy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of participation in 4-H, the largest youth development program in the United States, on standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida Department of Education combined with 4-H participation...

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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Firpo, Sergio; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...

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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative - Excellence in Cities - which has been a...

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The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School

Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based on an instrumental variable estimation strategy, we find that students moving from elementary to middle school...

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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities

Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...

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Bauer, Thomas; Grave, Barbara S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to … universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to … financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their …

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Does Money Matter for Schools?

Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...

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Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...

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