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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...
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This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In … between the countries increase with the income prospects in ROW and the number of international students. Higher stay rates of … foreign students lead to more ambiguous results. In particular, an increase in educational quality can be accompanied by a …
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transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …
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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...
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We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education … and child's ability leads to a larger university populated by a larger fraction of rich students, in line with the so …
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the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …
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access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …
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selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …
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high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …
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