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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786019
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What makes a program good? : evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries
Bassi, Marina; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; … - 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013536168
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How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job : evidence from a natural experiment
Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354757
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Why academic quality in higher education declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309225
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College curriculum, diverging selectivity, and enrollment expansion
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547733
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Should higher education be subsidized more?
Declercq, Koen; Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
Fiscal externalities arise if subsidies to higher education raise future net fiscal revenues. We investigate in which countries fiscal externalities provide a justification for increasing subsidies to higher education. First, we show that the marginal fiscal recovery rate, i.e. the ratio of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652848
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Matching in the dark? : inequalities in student to degree match
Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - 2021
This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We...
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Tutoring in (online) higher education : experimental evidence
Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022
Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293817
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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
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