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School Choice and Quality
Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large cross-section of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children’s attendance of public and private schools and parents’ assessments of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our … context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between …
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Segregation in Education and Labour Market Discrimination: The Role of Peer Beliefs
Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
pupils’ posterior beliefs. Specifically, we focus on the beliefs of private school graduates about the productivity of state … school graduates. We incorporate this into a dynamic model of parental school choice (state versus private) and labour market … decisions (whether to hire a state or a private school graduate). We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for segregation …
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The Illusion of School Choice: Empirical Evidence from Barcelona
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Güell, Maia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students’ educational outcomes. Yet … naive, but using school registry data, we find that a significant fraction of them have the outside option of private … not matched to any of the schools they applied for. Our results suggest that when allowing school choice under the BM with …
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The desegregating effect of school tracking
De Fraja, Gianni; Martinez Mora, Francisco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
households care about the school peer group of their children. If ability and income are positively correlated, tracking implies …
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Gender Peer Effects in School, a Birth Cohort Approach
Ciccone, Antonio; Garcia-Fontes, Walter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across …
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Self-Enforcing Intergenerational Transfers and the Provision of Education
Anderberg, Dan; Balestrino, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Due to the presence of borrowing constraints in the market, the cost of educating the young members of a family is often borne by the adults. We consider intrafamily financing of human capital under the assumptions that individuals are selfish and binding contracts are not feasible. Cooperation...
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Affirmative Action and Efficiency in Education
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals from groups with relatively few high ability individuals...
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A Policy Insight into the R&D-Patent Relationship
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; van Pottelsberghe de la … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper investigates whether patent counts can be taken as indicators of macroeconomic innovation performance. The empirical model explicitly accounts for the two components of patenting output: research productivity and patent propensity. The empirical analysis aims at explaining the...
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Diversity and Trade
Grossman, Gene; Maggi, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We develop a competitive model of trade between countries with similar aggregate factor endowments. The trade pattern reflects differences in the distribution of talent across the labour forces of the two countries. The country with a relatively homogeneous population exports the good produced...
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