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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...
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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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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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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
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The Drift to Private Schools in Australia: Understanding its Features
Ryan, Chris; Watson, Louise - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
Government subsidies have provided a major source of funds to private schools in Australia for three decades. The increasing level of private school subsidies since the mid-1970s has contributed to a steady increase in the proportion of students enrolled in private schools. This growth in the...
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Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reform
Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students’ future … education. The historically most common response to this market failure — a government guarantee to repay student loans to banks …
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How and Why has Teacher Quality Changed in Australia?
Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
average percentile rank of those entering teacher education fell from 74 to 61, while the average rank of new teachers fell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970075
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Income Contingent Student Loans for Thailand: Alternatives Compared
Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
This paper illustrates the extent of implicit taxpayer subsidies under four possible income contingent loan (ICL) arrangements for Thailand: TICAL, implemented in 2007 only, a variant of TICAL, and two alternative ICL schemes. The implicit taxpayer subsidy calculated with respect to average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970078
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International Dimensions in the Financing of Higher Education
Chapman, Bruce; Tulip, Peter - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
This chapter compares and contrasts international experience with respect to higher education financing. The size and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971316