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Incentives from Curriculum Tracking: Cross-national and UK Evidence
Koerselman, Kristian - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2011
Curriculum tracking creates incentives before its start, and we should expect scores in tested subjects to be higher at …
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Incentives from curriculum tracking
Koerselman, Kristian - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 140-150
Curriculum tracking creates incentives in the years before its start, and we should therefore expect test scores to be … be endogenous with respect to later-age policies, and add to a growing literature on incentives in education. …
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Investing Efficiently in Education and Active Labour Market Policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
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Einkommensentwicklung im Freistaat Sachsen
Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang; Ragnitz, Joachim - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Die Studie stellt die Bruttolohn- und Tariflohnentwicklung von Arbeitnehmern in der Privatwirtschaft und Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst seit der Wiedervereinigung gegenüber. Dabei werden auch Sonderleistungen (wie Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeld, Überstundenzuschläge usw.), flexible...
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Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...
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The Effects of Employment on Time-to-Degree in Higher Education: Does the type of Employment matter?
Amann, Roland - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2005
In this paper I scrutinize the impact of employment on time-to-degree in Higher Education. In contrast to the previous literature, I look at different types of working while being enrolled at university. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), I find that full-time employment and...
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Education Inequality and Economic Growth: Framework for the Evaluation of Pakistan’s Education Policy
Hassan, Rubina; Mirza, M. Shahzad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper attempts to substantiate the Education-Growth relationship with a view to evaluate Pakistan’s Education Policy over the last two decades. With a view to the inadequacy of the generally used measures of education, we first estimate the no enrollment ratios, the average schooling...
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Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects
Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope parameter estimator is asymptotically Gaussian. Monte Carlo studies are carried out to...
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Vouchers, Public School Response and the Role of Incentives: Evidence from Florida
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005
years. Exploiting the institutional details of the 1999 program, I analyze the incentives built into the system and … investigate whether the threatened public schools behaved strategically to respond to incentives. There is strong evidence that … they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school level data, a difference- in-differences estimation …
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Unintended Negative Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms
Chao, Melody M.; Dehejia, Rajeev; Mukhopadhyay, Anirban; … - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
decreased. These students also reported lower interest in school material and lower expectations of themselves. Thus incentives …
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