Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 83
Cover Image
Repayment burdens of student loans for Vietnamese higher education
Chapman, Bruce; Liu, Amy Y.C. - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 298-308
Expansion of high education in Vietnam will be undermined without an effective student, loans policy to assist with tuition and living costs. We show the significance of this issue is by, constructing a hypothetical loans system and calculating repayment burdens (RBs) (the proportion of, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729872
Cover Image
The effects of tuition reforms on school enrollment in rural China
Chyi, Hau; Zhou, Bo - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 104-123
We estimate the effects of three sequential reforms undertaken between 2000 and 2006 on school enrollment for poor, rural families in China. Using difference-in-difference approaches and sample children from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 2000, 2004, and 2006 waves, we find that tuition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744038
Cover Image
The impact of a universal class-size reduction policy: Evidence from Florida's statewide mandate
Chingos, Matthew M. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 543-562
Class-size reduction (CSR) mandates presuppose that resources provided to reduce class size will have a larger impact on student outcomes than resources that districts can spend as they see fit. I estimate the impact of Florida's statewide CSR policy by comparing the deviations from prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010594751
Cover Image
The effects of tuition fees on transition from high school to university in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Wigger, Berthold U. - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 14-23
This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative … effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906634
Cover Image
The distributional impacts of a universal school reform on mathematical achievements: A natural experiment from Canada
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 137-160
We investigate the impact of an ambitious provincial school reform in Canada on students’ mathematical achievements. It is the first paper to exploit a universal school reform of this magnitude to identify the causal effect of a widely supported teaching approach on students’ math scores....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906636
Cover Image
Estimating the relationship between calculated financial need and actual aid received using quarter of birth instruments
Shao, Ling - In: Economics of Education Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 165-174
When calculating financial need, the FAFSA does not consider the parental income of students who turn 24 years old. This paper uses the student's quarter of birth interacted with the treated cohort to instrument for financial need. Using the interaction mitigates many of the concerns regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939710
Cover Image
An analysis of Stafford loan repayment burdens
Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 89-102
There is significant unease with the state of college loans in the US, of which Stafford loans are the most common. One of the most important issues relates to the “repayment burden” (RB), the proportion of a debtor's income per period required to repay loans. RBs are fundamental to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263978
Cover Image
Demographic changes and education expenditures: A reinterpretation
Kurban, Haydar; Gallagher, Ryan M.; Persky, Joseph J. - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 103-108
Several empirical studies have estimated a negative relationship between the share of an area's elderly population and per-pupil education spending. These findings have often been interpreted as evidence that an aging population has hindered the growth in per-pupil expenditures. We offer a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263982
Cover Image
Do in-state tuition benefits affect the enrollment of non-citizens? Evidence from universities in Texas
Dickson, Lisa; Pender, Matea - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 126-137
to offer in-state tuition rates at public universities for non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) who attended high … school in the state for three years. As a result of the policy change, the cost of attending college at public universities … in Texas fell dramatically for non-citizens. Using administrative data from five universities in Texas, we employ a quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729874
Cover Image
The effect of administrative pay and local property taxes on student achievement scores: Evidence from New Jersey public schools
Mensah, Yaw M.; Schoderbek, Michael P.; Sahay, Savita P. - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 1-16
We theorized that student test score performance will be positively related to the percentage of school district revenues raised from local taxes and with salary levels of school district administrators. Using both fixed and random effects panel analyses, we examine data for 217...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010869467