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threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …
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It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form "loyal … citizens" and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected … category of expenditure are consistent with the role of indoctrination of public primary education. …
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country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education … experience. We find that both government expenditures in education and attendance to early child care are associated with better …
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terms of health, education, and earnings, the question of whether working memory (WM) training can improve them is of …
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I use variation in ex-ante school fee payments to measure how Free Secondary Education (FSE) affected primary students …
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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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This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …
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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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