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receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
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I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d … debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are tested. The … direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices …
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two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …
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economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
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Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …
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sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
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distributions into age, year and cohort effects. The cohort effects show a period where inequality increases, to then decrease. We … attempt to explain this evolution. The rise can be explained by variables associated with education, while the fall appears to …
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Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by theoretical work and supported by a large empirical literature. We use twin births as an exogenous source of variation in family size in an unusually rich dataset where it is...
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
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