Similar Search Results

Designing efficient college and tax policies

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491864

The labor market effects of eliminating university tuition in Ecuador

Molina, Teresa; Rivadeneyra, Ivan - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968934

Do opportunities for low-income students at top colleges promote academic success? : evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga program

Penney, Jeffrey; Lehrer, Steven F.; Bernal, Gloria L.; … - 2023 - Version October 16, 2023

In 2014, the government of Colombia launched a unique meanstested and merit-based scholarship program called Ser Pilo Paga. We examine the effects of this scholarship on student performance on the country's university exit exam and other educational outcomes. Exploiting thresholds for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014385031

Do financial conditions play a role in university dropout? : new evidence from administrative data

Contini, Dalit; Zotti, Roberto - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168256

The impact of the "Coding girls" program on high school students' educational choices

Basiglio, Stefania; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara … - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232983

Weakly progressive : disproportionate higher education attendance and the structure of income taxes

Gubello, Michele; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2022

This paper studies the effect of income tax progressivity on the disproportionate usage of publicly funded higher education. We develop a rational choice model showing that more progressive tax systems increase poorer households' net fiscal benefit, making their children more likely to attend...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013447524

Keep me in, coach : the shortand long-term effects of targeted academic coaching

Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Mouganie, Pierre; … - 2023

lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380831