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Trade, Education, and Income Inequality
Brueckner, Markus - 2020
This paper examines the relationship between countries' bilateral trade with the United States that is not due to gravity (non-gravity trade) and the distribution of income within countries. In countries where only a small share of the population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830357
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Do institutions of direct democracy tame the leviathan? : Swiss evidence on the structure of expenditure for public education
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2005
administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273733
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Majority Vote on Educational Standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794184
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Taxes, status goods, and piracy
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2012
This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280816
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Monopoly, inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods
Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government collects different amounts of taxes from each citizen (voter) but gives back the same amount (in cash or in kind) to everyone. In this paper we consider what happens if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261071
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Prioritarianism in Education
Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
I first summarize and critically discuss the different normative views that are operational in the academic literature on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and compare it to utilitarians and Rawlsians. I finish with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246472
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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools
Murphy, Richard - 2020
This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836718
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How Do School District Boundary Changes and New School Proposals Affect Housing Prices
Ding, Xiaozhou - 2020
boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the proposal of a new school. Our findings from redistricting in the Fayette … county school district (KY) show that prices for homes redistricted from a lower-performing (based on test scores) school … into the proposed school catchment area increase by six percent. For houses in higher-performing school catchment areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842382
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Financial Education in Schools : A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies
Kaiser, Tim - 2019
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892190
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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Race- Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2019
This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892247