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To segregate or to integrate : education politics and democracy

De la Croix, David (contributor); … - 2007

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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Low-skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools

Dottori, Davide (contributor); Shen, I-ling (contributor) - 2009

This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796287

Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Dynamic skill accumulation, comparative advantages, compulsory schooling, and earnings

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011

We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...

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Anti-lemons : school reputation, relative diversity, and educational quality

MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2012

Friedman (1962) observed that the ability of firms to acquire and maintain reputations for quality is a key ingredient for the efficient provision of goods and services in a market economy. This paper explores the implications of school reputation for skill acquisition and labor market outcomes...

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Competition and educational productivity : incentives writ large

MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2012

Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling services in a free market ((Friedman (1955, 1962)). Hoxby...

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Unilingual versus bilingual education system : a political economy analysis

Ortega, Javier (contributor); … - 2004

We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. Under a unilingual system, the language of the politically dominant group is the only language of...

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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

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