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The determinants of high school closures: lessons from longitudinal data throughout Illinois
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. - 2009
Facing substantial financial pressure, many districts close schools in order to preserve solvency and improve student outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school closure decisions from 1991 through 2005. Our...
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'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?
Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009
Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008
provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK). …
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Student loan reforms for German higher education: Financing tuition fees
Chapman, Bruce; Sinning, Mathias - 2011
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...
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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007
impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …
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Selective Schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …
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Choice, competition and pupil achievement
Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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