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Optimal Education Policies and Comparative Advantage
Bougheas, Spiros - 2009
We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the rest of the world. Lastly, the government...
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines
Meier, Volker - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2009
This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
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Can Online Delivery Increase Access of Education?
Goodman, Joshua - 2017
Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing formal...
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Financing Bologna, the Internationally Mobile Students in European Higher Education
Gerard, Marcel - 2008
Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...
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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion
Kaganovich, Michael - 2016
We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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The Return to College : Selection Bias and Dropout Risk
Hendricks, Lutz - 2014
introduces two levels of ability selection that reinforce each other. (i) In college, low ability students typically do not … from even attempting college. Taken together, the two levels of selection generate a large ability gap between college … graduates and high school graduates. We calibrate the model to data for men born around 1960 and find that ability selection …
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College Expansion and Curriculum Choice
Kaganovich, Michael - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...
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Academic Achievements : Grades versus Duration
Brugiavini, Agar - 2015
This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set of independent variables contains information on...
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