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This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and … outcomes. Over the last two decades – through three major reforms in 1998, 2006 and 2012 – undergraduate university education … school-aged children) from lower education to higher education, we document the socio-economic distributional effects of the …
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administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation …
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...
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price of petroleum. In this paper, we provide evidence that returns to education have decreased significantly in Venezuela … provide free mass tertiary education, in particular targeting the poor and marginalized. The implementation of this program … created a sudden increase in the supply of skilled labor and had a direct impact on quality of education. Although we do not …
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-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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marginal future earnings on the basis of a four-month shutdown. We also estimated the losses by level of education. The …
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We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...
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