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Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...
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We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a prespecified threshold. The contract carries a financial...
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Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade reforms and labor market … regulations on the outcome of the labor market. The theoretical predictions on this literature show that the effects of trade … liberalization in any given country are conditional on the nature of labor market regulations since trade liberalization is more …
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trade contributes to economic growth, this could, in turn, impede economic development. Despite extensive literature on the … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
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build resilience and those who will not. Despite costly labor-market adjustments due to increased international trade over … the last two decades, the health effects of trade liberalization are underexplored, with potentially wide implications for … public policy and national budgets. Given the remarkable increase in trade volumes between Germany and China following …
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I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant … of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT. The growth in IT imports from China is associated with … from the fall in IT prices can be attributed to the trade with China. …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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We evaluate a political reform in Portugal that introduced individual teacher performancerelated pay and tournaments in public schools. We find that the focus on individual performance decreased student achievement, as measured in national exams, and increased grade inflation. The results follow...
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Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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