Showing 1 - 10 of 142
Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265438
administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273733
This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that … changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school … the distribution of students over schools changed dramatically as a response to extending school choice. As expected, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317952
and empirically, the effects of these changes on public school performance (as measured by test scores) in Milwaukee. It … effects of public school incentives and performance. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283382
public school districts in Missouri. We take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in pre-negotiated district salary … 3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268936
care systems, Austria's system grew below average- a fact which holds particularly true for the years between 1990 and 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291920
the development of the capital market suggest for Austria a high effectiveness of the monetary policy with a strong impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292757
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293998
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294601
regions after EU enlargement. In this paper we take a closer look at the mechanisms involved in a case study for Austria …-style growth regression and find a regional distribution of these factors in Austria, which also places rural border regions at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295524