manifestation in Argentina of the existence of a shadow education market affecting the admission chances of candidates at … Universities. The conceptual tenets of shadow education emerged in the literature in relation to secondary education (Bray & Lykins …, 2012; Choi, Calero & Escardíbul, 2011). In this presentation the idea is extended to the realm of higher education. This …

-type growth effects, which may help explain the lack of consensus in the empirical literature on education and growth. A central … feature of the model is that the accumulation of endowments depends on the output of education, while the changes in labour … education depends on education quality, so the composition of the inflow of entrants to the labour market can be upgraded by …

development. Can education policy do anything to affect the evolution of this ratio? This paper shows that it can, and it also … shows that the actual effect of education policy depends on the allocation rule of the budget across educational levels. The … consideration of a stylised hierarchical education model allows us to develop analytical conditions under which the allocation rule …

The Italian educational system is strictly regulated by the Ministry of Education. However, there are strong … insights are necessary about the efficiency of public spending on education in a comparative perspective across Regions. To … are the 18 Italian Regions, with the focus on the lower-secondary education. Then a second-stage Tobit regression was used …