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This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …
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We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants …
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Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...
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Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments’ ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant...
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grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. To identify the causal effect of structural school transitions …, we use student fixed effects and instrument for middle and high school attendance based on the terminal grade of the … school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students …
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While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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taxation. University graduates become high skilled, while the other children attend vocational school and become low skilled …
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This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from …
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What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which … school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice … effects of school choice and competition, using precise geographical information on the locations of school buildings and …. We can measure the long-term effects up to age 25. We find that increased school choice had very small, but positive …
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