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Conditional cash transfers in education design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia
Barrera Osorio, Felipe (contributor) - 2008
"We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521179
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Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government
Hanushek, Eric A. - 1999
Analyses of income inequality have identified the importance of increased demand for worker skills, but characterizations of worker skills by the amount of schooling attained do not capture important aspects of the widening income distribution and of the stagnating relative wages of black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471333
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The Impact of Fiscal Incentives on Student Disability Rates
Cullen, Julie Berry - 1999
Student disability rates have grown by over 50 percent over the past two decades and are continuing to rise. Policy discussion has linked this trend to state funding formulas that reward local school districts for identifying additional students with special needs. However, there is little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471614
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Tax and Education Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy : What Levels of Redistribution Maximize Growth and Efficiency?
Benabou, Roland - 1999
This paper studies the effects of progressive income taxes and education finance in a dynamic heterogeneous agent economy. Such redistributive policies entail distortions to labor supply and savings, but also serve as partial substitutes for missing credit and insurance markets. The resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471662
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Equity and Resources : An Analysis of Education Finance Systems
Fernandez, Raquel - 1999
very large effects on both resources devoted to education and equity. Our calibration suggests that total spending on … education may differ by as much as 25% across systems. The trade-off between equity and resources, however, is not monotone … falls well short of the state system in terms of equity. Additionally, we find that the PER system is remarkably popular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471683
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Government Expenditure on the Public Education System
Fu, Chao - 2019
We investigate equilibrium impacts of federal policies such as free-college proposals, taking into account that human capital production is cumulative and that state governments have resource constraints. In the model, a state government cares about household welfare and aggregate educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480368
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Unpacking Household Engel Curves
De Vreyer, Philippe - 2020
The classic Working-Leser household Engel curve is unpacked to reveal individual budget allocations across commodities as a function of both individual and household total spending. Two main findings emerge on calibrating our model to an unusual sub-household dataset for Senegal. First, for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482031
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The Distribution of School Spending Impacts
Jackson, Clement - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use estimates across all known "credibly causal" studies to examine the distributions of the causal effects of public K12 school spending on test scores and educational attainment in the United States. Under reasonable assumptions, for each of the 31 included studies, we compute the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482732
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Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education
Corcoran, Sean - 2010
Using a panel of U.S. school districts spanning 1970 - 2000, we examine the relationship between income inequality and fiscal support for public education. In contrast with recent theoretical and empirical work suggesting a negative relationship between inequality and public spending, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462558
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The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions : Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment
Bettinger, Eric P. - 2009
Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance visibility. This project examines the effects of two experimental treatments designed to test of the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463289