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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932956

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Optimal need-based financial aid

Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

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Returns to investment in education: The case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education by three years as an instrument. This results in a...

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Private tutoring and the question of equitable opportunities in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The nature of the private tutoring and its relation to the two national selection examinations in...

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Complex approaches for education in Brazil

Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016

Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are phenomena resulting from interactions between the heterogeneous agents that compose such systems. Given the complex nature of education systems, new approaches seem relevant,...

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The market value of public education

Soares, Sergei - 2018

This article estimates the market value of public education by comparing standardized test scores of students in public and private schools. The idea is to assign to the education of each public school student a market value equivalent to the tuition paid by private school students with similar...

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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers

Zimmermann, Markus - 2019

This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...

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Education effects on days hospitalized and days out of work by gender: Evidence from Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim - 2017

The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882656

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