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Sorting, Education and Inequality
Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123607
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280747
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Theory-based evaluation of the curriculum Lgr 11a
Wahlström, Ninni; Sundberg, Daniel - 2015
This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to generate new knowledge concerning the influences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440147
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628458
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School integration of refugee children: Evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628468
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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373849
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Immigrant parents' attributes versus discrimination: New evidence in the debate about the creation of second generation educational outcomes in Israel
Perlmann, Joel; Elmelech, Yuval - 2010
There is much interest in explaining the persistent ethnic gaps in education among Israeli Jews; specifically, the much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286511
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365649
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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466350
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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123901