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Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the …
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route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of … taking the "GED path" to postsecondary education. Lacking suitable instruments that would allow us to directly address … 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …
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. -- Education finance ; education administration ; school closures ; tax policy …
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Illinois State Board of Education, the Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Revenue, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics … students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. -- Economics of education ; education finance ; human … capital ; secondary education …
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approximate the second-best policy by incorporating these principles in some measure. -- child labour ; education ; uncertainty …
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enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative …, where the elasticity of the demand for females' education again exceeds that for males'. …
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Birth order effects in developed countries are consistently negative. That is, the later a child is born within a family, the worse their adult economic outcomes relative to their earlier-born siblings are. However, studies of birth order effects in emerging countries are scarcer and yield...
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
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Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes … by the ideological content of the school curriculum in the Polish education system. …
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Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...
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