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Parents know better: primary school choice and student achievement in London
Ovidi, Marco - 2021
Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395616
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Parents know better : sorting on match effects in primary school
Ovidi, Marco - 2022
I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467043
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The Effect of University Openings on Local Human Capital Formation: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from Germany
Siegler, Benedikt - 2012
Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate the effect of a university opening on the probability of obtaining a university degree in the local population. I exploit the geographical variation in local university access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294753
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Demographics, fiscal health, and school quality: shedding light on school closure decisions
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary schools, declining enrolments and rural locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269702
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Everybody needs good neighbours? Evidence from students' outcomes in England
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2011
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on changes in neighbourhood composition caused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280686
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Demographics, fiscal health, and school quality : shedding light on school closure decisions
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary schools, declining enrolments and rural locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939062
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Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?
Jackson, Osborne - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused on the effect of increased demand for schooling by immigrants on the enrollment of natives. However, changes in immigrant labor supply may also affect native enrollment by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430951
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748365
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The effect of university openings on local human capital formation : difference-in-differences evidence from Germany
Siegler, Benedikt - 2012
Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate the effect of a university opening on the probability of obtaining a university degree in the local population. I exploit the geographical variation in local university access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620578
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities ; conference paper
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340965