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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when …
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Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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This paper uses a two-country model with integrated markets for high-skilled labor to analyze the opportunities and incentives for national governments to provide higher education. Countries can differ in productivity, and education is financed through a wage tax, so that brain drain affects the...
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …
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Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …
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This paper estimates the difference in academic performance of the oldest and youngest students in a given grade. We … employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for …
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The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in … tackle this problem, Australia blurred the lines between the two tracks by introducing VET courses that count to both a …
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contingent loan system based on current policy approaches used in Australia, England and New Zealand …
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This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We...
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This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional Engel method, the paper utilizes a Hurdle model to...
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