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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
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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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The Consequences of Recent Changes in Financing for Australian Higher Education.
Chapman, B; Salvage, T - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997
The changes made to Australian higher education financing in the 1996-97 Budget are arguable the most significant since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971335
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Equal Opportunities in Education: Market Equilibrium and Public Policy
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper investigates whether individual decisions lead to equality of opportunity in education, defined in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067375
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Policy Perspectives on Hifher Education Financing : A Comprehensive Program of National Scholarship / Cost Functions for Australian Universities : A Survey of Results with Implicat...
Markel, P; Heaton, C; Throsby, D - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032822
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College Diversity and Investment Incentives
Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145471
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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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The Design of Optimal Education Policies
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666893
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Rates of Return to University Education: the Regression Discontinuity Design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
, we estimate the Local Average Treatment Effects (LATE) of university education based on a Regression Discontinuity design … education on earnings. Our results show that the rates of return to 4-year university education relative to 3-year college … education are 40 and 60 per cent for the compliers in the male and female samples, respectively, which are much larger than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515762
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Thailand’s Student Loan Fund: An Analysis of Interest Rate Subsidies and Repayment Hardships
Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha; Polsiri, Piruna; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education across countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970063