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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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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...
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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education
Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match …
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Higher Education in Turkey: Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?
Caner, Asena; Okten, Cagla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with … takers together with data on government subsidies to public universities. We compare the characteristics of students who … econometric analyses based on a three-stage selection model reveal that students from wealthier and more educated families are …
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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives
Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
students. We offer some suggestions for policies that might help mitigate the negative consequences of immigration outlined …
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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
private tutoring is not a new phenomenon in India: a significant proportion of students at each stage of schooling took … private tutoring even in 1986-87, and there has been no dramatic increase in those proportions. Students in urban areas and …
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Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test scores across three subjects observed at age 11 and 16 and the variation in the composition of...
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School Inputs and Skills: Complementarity and Self-Productivity
Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ability is 0.221 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment …
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School Accountability: Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection?
Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show...
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Are College Costs Worth It? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions
Webber, Douglas A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a lifecycle simulation approach, I account for ability/selection bias and the substantial...
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