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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …
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Active learning improves financial education : experimental evidence from Uganda
Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2022
-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with traditional "lecturing" within standardized … lesson-plans. After six months, active learning has a positive effect on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to … for the active learning group, such as a 60 percent increase in investments. As an adverse outcome, reported late payment …
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
differs from previous research in two important ways. Firstly, we take into account the location of universities and include a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748365
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Scholarships or student loans? : subsidizing higher education in the presence of moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2003
Student loans, even income-contingent ones, are not optimal. Potential university students with the appropriate characteristics should be offered a scholarship, dependent on both need and merit. The award of the scholarship should be conditional on the choice of university degree, but students...
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Testing means-tested aid
Murphy, Richard; Wyness, Gill - 2016
Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of education aid examine its impact on college enrolment. In this paper, we provide evidence on the causal impact of means-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541300
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Efficient tuition fees, examinations, and subsidies
Gary-Bobo, Robert; Trannoy, Alain - 2004
We assume that students can acquire a wage premium, thanks to studies, and form a rational expectation of their future earnings, which depends on personal ability. Students receive a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can condition admission decisions on the results of...
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404287
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
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Financing Bologna, the internationally mobile students in European higher education
Gérard, Marcel (contributor) - 2008
Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751085
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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...
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