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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234470
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive … ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …, compulsory education is implemented first and triggers the onset of market R&D. According to the British way, market R&D is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392484
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Parental resources and college attendance : evidence from lottery wins
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2020
We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387524
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Redistribution or education? : the political economy of the social race
Bernasconi, Michele (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496522
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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system
Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419362
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393654
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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 …, because combining skill-specific tuition fees and public education spending provide both insurance and redistribution at lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730305
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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation
Mejía, Daniel (contributor); St. Pierre, Marc (contributor) - 2005
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002572564
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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories
Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362380
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Political economics of higher education finance
Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …. -- voting ; higher education ; financing scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897350