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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409743
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002576887
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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …-2006 period.--globalization ; public education ; composition of public spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928775
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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories
Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...
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Moral universalism : global evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity in people's moral...
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Iceland's natural experiment in education reform
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir; Gísli Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2022
We use a change in Iceland’s education system as a natural experiment to measure the effect of years spent in upper secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was shortened by one year through compression of the...
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Education policy and mobility : some basic results
Hange, Ulrich - 2003
This paper analyzes regional public education policy in the presence of mobile workers. Labor market integration leads to fiscal competition, shifting the whole burden of taxation to immobile workers. In the case of mobile skilled workers, this results in income inequalities and inefficient low...
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Insuring educational risk : opportunities versus income
Schindler, Dirk (contributor); Weigert, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector depends on individual effort in education and public resources, but educational risk still causes (income) inequality. We show that an optimal public policy consists of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730305
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Optimal policy and the risk properties of human capital reconsidered
Anderberg, Dan (contributor) - 2008
This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model it is shown that this feature alone determines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790631
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Optimal education policies and comparative advantage
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Kneller, Richard; Riezman, Raymond … - 2009
with the rest of the world. Lastly, the government chooses a new education policy that maximizes welfare under trade. Is it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850137