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Escaping from Mass Education – Why Harvard Pays
Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Günther - 2005
Private universities, as opposed to publicly financed ones, are dominant in some countries and almost non-existent in others. We develop a dynamic model to demonstrate that private providers emerge as soon as they can profitably sell an elite signal to the most highly talented. As private...
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928010
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovid, Marco - 2021
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study the attributes of top-scoring (four-star) publications in Economics and Econometrics. Although official documents contain aggregate scores for each institution, we show how these aggregates can be used to infer the score awarded...
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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017
working while enrolled, resulting in a 14 percentage points increase in students working during the academic year. The reform … - reduces debt and lowers academic capital accumulation as students finance more of the college cost by working and less by …
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Does School Competition Matter? Effects of a Large-Scale School Choice Reform on Student Performance
Ahlin, Åsa - 2003
characteristics, the results indicate that immigrant students and those in need of special education tend to gain more from increased … school competition than others, while adverse effects on students from low education families are found in terms of English … and Swedish performance. However, quantile regressions indicate homogeneous effects on low and high performing students. …
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Does grade configuration matter for school performance? Short- and long-run effects of school reorganisation
Holmlund, Helena; Böhlmark, Anders - 2017
This paper studies the effects of school organisation on short- and long-run pupil outcomes, exploiting a policy change that reorganised Swedish middle school education. The reorganisation induced pupils to remain in small local schools throughout grades 1-9, as opposed to making a transition to...
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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?
de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2010
In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for 'active ageing' and the 'Lisbon strategy' of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult...
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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills: Evidence from education expansions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2022
We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
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High-Speed Broadband and Academic Achievement in Teenagers: Evidence from Sweden
Grenestam, Erik; Nordin, Martin - 2018
This study examines the effects of super-fast internet connections on the academic achievement of students in upper … secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband … for boys and students with low ability and/or low-educated parents. Using PISA survey data, we provide evidence that …
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The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from of Tunisia
Ben Salah, Mhamed; Chambru, Cédric; Fourati, Maleke - 2024
This paper uses spatial variations in the enrolment rate of Tunisian pupils in 1931 to estimate the weight of colonial history on medium- and long-run educational attainment. We assemble a new dataset on the location of public primary schools and the number of pupils and teachers, together with...
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