“Con el proyecto Agenda Colombia Fedesarrollo busca plantear propuestas concretas sobre algunos de los temas más importantes que debe contener el Plan de Desarrollo del nuevo gobierno. Para cumplir este propósito, Fedesarrollo entrega esta serie de documentos, de alto contenido académico...

The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using...

Ebben a tanulmányban a 2006. évi országos kompetenciamérés - minden iskolára és egy iskolai évfolyam minden tanulójára kiterjedő - adatfelvételére támaszkodva megpróbáljuk részletesen feltárni a magyarországi iskolai szegregáció jelenségét: az iskolák közötti és az...

The Italian educational system is strictly regulated by the Ministry of Education. However, there are strong differences in educational inputs and outputs among Regions, as can be noticed by analyzing the allocation of public budgets to the Regions and their students' (average) performance in...

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of...

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...

Education and professional development is considered central issues in civil service development and public administration reform. While this may be true, the content of such programs bears equal influence in skill acquirement, which in turn, has an impact on managerial performance (Perry,...

El presente trabajo aborda la educación secundaria en Bogotá en el período 1984-2007, relacionando su comportamiento con respecto a la cobertura, calidad educativa y escolaridad, contra la empleabilidad, tasa de retorno de la educación y desarrollo humano. La política educativa vista a...