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Are education subsidies an efficient redistributive device?
Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003
We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …
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Selective secondary education and school participation in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Malawi
Hoop, Jacobus de - 2010 - Version 15 April 2010
have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio …
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Measuring externalities in program evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2006
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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Compensatory inter vivos gifts
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....
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On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties
Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Stallen, Mirre; … - 2008
Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual...
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Payment choice, image motivation and contributions to charity
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Final version: 04 August, 2010
This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...
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The sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system with falling birth rates
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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