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The Pandemic's Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools
Musaddiq, Tareena; Stange, Kevin; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. Using longitudinal student-level administrative data from Michigan and nationally representative data from the...
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Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
Figlio, David; Hart, Cassandra; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2021
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited...
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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Himmler, Oliver - 2009
performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …
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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance
Suesse, Marvin - 2019
factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …
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Flexible Microcredit : Effects on Loan Repayment and Social Pressure
Czura, Kristina - 2020
Flexible repayment schedules allow borrowers to invest in profitable yet risky projects, but practitioners fear they erode repayment morale. We study repayment choices in rigid and flexible loan contracts that allow discretion in repayment timing. To separate strategic repayment choices from...
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - 2021
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
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Psychological and Social Motivations in Microfinance Contracts : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit - 2020
Microfinance contracts have enormous economic and welfare significance. We study, theoretically and empirically, the …
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
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