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In the public discourse, education is usually considered as the main vehicle for the promotion of social equality and … social mobility. The paper surveys the existing literature and concludes that the relationship between education and … inequality in Greece is strong. Inequities are evident at all levels of the education system; especially as regards access to the …
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Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across … districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental evaluations of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is …
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, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education …
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This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...
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Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …
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of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … inequality and educational inequality. Given concerns over the extended school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic, we also …
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This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets … ; education ; labor ; marriage ; social welfare ; linear programming …
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underlying causes of the native-refugee differences in school enrollment. We also analyze employment and marriage outcomes, as …Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many …
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match …
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This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an … expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … on education does not make up for the negative effects of increased parental absences. However, if the migration …
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