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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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Mixed oligopoly in education
Cremer, Helmuth; Maldonado, Darío - 2013
This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the quality of education depends on "peer group" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second stage they fix their tuition fees. We examine how...
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay...
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Long-lasting effects of communist indoctrination in school : evidence from Poland
Costa-Font, Joan; García-Hombrados, Jorge; Nicińska, Anna - 2020
Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive welfare consequences on its pupils. This paper...
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Super-additive cooperation
Efferson, Charles; Bernhard, Helen; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2022
Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …
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Does the housing market react to new information on school quality?
Fiva, Jon H. (contributor); Kirkebøen, Lars J. (contributor) - 2008
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Does the market value value-added? : evidence from housing prices after a public release of school and teacher value-added
Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2013
Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …
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Testing
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - 2018
School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...
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Voter support for privatizing education : evidence on self-interest and ideology
Merzyn, Wolfram; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2003
Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508114
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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