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Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703784
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El empleo de las administraciones públicas en España: caracterización y evolución durante la crisis
Montesinos, Antonio; Pérez, Javier J.; Ramos, Roberto - Banco de España - 2014
We analyze the evolution of General Government employment in Spain over the economic crisis and the recent fiscal consolidation process. We characterize the changes in the structure and composition of General government workforce between economics sectors, level of administration, and type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886088
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Where is a Teacher Happy in Russia? Indicators of Teachers’ Salaries
Derkachev, Pavel V. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015
This article considers the uneven positions of school teachers in different regions of the Russian Federation. There exist numerous research works on the relation of school teachers’ salaries to the characteristics of regional educational systems and regional economies. A range of indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268442
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The System of Revenue Sharing and Fiscal Transfers in China
Wang, Xiao; Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a multi-level government structure that shares national tax revenues through a system of tax sharing and transfers, and divides spending assignments and responsibilities. Local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276970
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Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822991
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The Optimal Timing of School Tracking
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early tracking, and the costs of early selection, which lead to later tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762326
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Aging Population and Education Finance
Gradstein, Mark; Kaganovich, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
social spending in favour of the elderly, while potentially sacrificing other publicly provided goods such as education. This … view seems to be supported by recent empirical findings that per child public education spending tends to be lower in US … longevity will lead over time to waning political support for funding of public education? This Paper challenges such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792248
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Se il PSI va al governo. Un documento serio
Labini, Paolo Sylos - In: Moneta e Credito 67 (2014) 265, pp. 31-37
administration, investing in education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765183
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Does Abolishing Fees Reduce School Quality?  Evidence from Kenya
Bold, Tesssa - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. We find that this Free Primary Education (FPE … rather the selection of weaker pupils into free education.  In contrast, affluent children who exited to the private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004211
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Does Abolishing Fees Reduce School Quality? Evidence from Kenya
Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, … - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2011
In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. We find that this Free Primary Education (FPE … the selection of weaker pupils into free education. In contrast, affluent children who exited to the private sector in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642909