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The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School : Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data
Edmark, Karin; Persson, Lovisa - 2021
on time, and attending post-secondary education. We however also find indications of more lenient grading practices among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315000
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Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility
Göhausen, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024
component of students' expenditures and an important location factor - have contributed to the slowdown in higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461517
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294753
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Did tuition fees in Germany constrain students' budgets? : new evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Haaren, Friederike von - 2014
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434567
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The impact of peer achievement and peer heterogeneity on own achievement growth : evidence from school transitions
Kiss, David - 2013
This paper estimates ability peer effects on achievement growth in reading and math. It exploits variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed in detail, this variation is exogenous in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127858
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Did tuition fees in Germany constrain students' budgets? : new evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-25
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660111
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Mobility, housing markets, and schools : estimating the effects of inter-district choice programs
Brunner, Eric J.; Cho, Sung-woo; Reback, Randall - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 7/8, pp. 604-614
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691184
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Literacy traps: Society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292080
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Efficient subsidization of human capital accumulation with overlapping generations and endogenous growth
Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - 2010
This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270495
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country: An optimal taxation problem with moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270527