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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and … details. These findings render the conclusion that compulsory schooling in Germany yields no wage returns at a minimum …
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little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly …
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We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...
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schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic …
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sort out of public education and into private schooling. The IRCA differentially increases Hispanic school board members …, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … public education, I find significant post-legalization increases in student enrollment and student-to-teacher ratios in …
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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