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This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …
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This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
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health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …
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The paper studies the optimal education policy of a budget-constrained utilitarian government. Households differ in … information. Households can choose to use private education, but cannot borrow to finance it. The results we obtain are striking …. The optimal education policy is elitist: it increases the spread between the education achievement of the bright and the …
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The changes made to Australian higher education financing in the 1996-97 Budget are arguable the most significant since …
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it has taken place, attention needs to be given to a whole range of issues. These include : scale of higher education …, funding, university/government relations, research, diversity, quality, higher education and vocational education and training …. The reforms that have occurred in the Astralian higher education sector in recent years, and those that are currently …
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discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and student loan take-up decisions. We use administrative panel data and …
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inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth …, which provides an integrated framework for analysing the local determinants of inequality and growth. Five main conclusions … emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of …
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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
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Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …
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