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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003

China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use …% annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13%. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …

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Making - or picking - winners: evidence of internal and external price effects in historic preservation policies

Noonan, Douglas S.; Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009

Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper outlines a general case of land use regulation in the presence of externalities and then demonstrates...

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Determinants of historic and cultural landmark designation: why we preserve what we preserve

Noonan, Douglas S.; Krupka, Douglas J. - 2008

There is much interest among cultural economists in assessing the effects of heritage preservation policies. There has been less interest in modeling the policy choices made in historic and cultural landmark preservation. This paper builds an economic model of a landmark designation that...

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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...

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School Vouchers Italian Style

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2005

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher...

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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - 2003

This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...

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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. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, while the economic rationale for choice and competition is clear, in existing work...

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Schooling and citizenship: evidence from compulsory schooling reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Resources and standards in urban schools

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - 2007

Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative Excellence in Cities which has been a flagship...

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For one more year with you: changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...

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