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A new model for equitable and efficient resource allocation to schools: the Israeli case
BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian - 2010
variables, teacher profiles and school characteristics, were analyzed to identify appropriate needs-based formula components and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269487
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Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts?
Tyler, John; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2008
th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276908
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The determinants of high school closures: lessons from longitudinal data throughout Illinois
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. - 2009
outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school … the most important determinants of school closures. Neither math and reading test scores nor the sociodemographics of the … students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269593
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Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: The role of class size and time-in-term
Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - 2010
time-in-term, other school factors and student background factors. Class size and time-in-term are both important school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269793
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261593
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261806
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938
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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261974
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262135