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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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Family background and children's schooling outcomes
Haan, Monique de - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779951
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Family Heterogeneity, Human Capital Investment, and College Attainment
Blandin, Adam - 2020
trends differed markedly for individuals from different family backgrounds. This paper considers the extent to which trends … across family backgrounds. We first document parallel empirical patterns in pre-college investments, college preparedness … composition of family types over time are also important. Finally, we use our model to show that subsidizing pre …
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The Impact of the Length of Schooling on the Timing of Family Formation
Koebe, Josefine - 2020
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823381
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Birth Order and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Education
Ejrnaes, Mette; Pörtner, Claus C. - 2005
This paper develops a model of intrahousehold allocation with endogenous fertility, which captures the relationship between birth order and investment in children. It shows that a birth order effect in intrahousehold allocation can arise even without assumptions about parental preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067149
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Birth Order and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Education
Ejrnaes, Mette; Pörtner, Claus C. - 2004
This paper develops a model of intrahousehold allocation with endogenous fertility, which captures the relationship between birth order and investment in children. It shows that a birth order effect in intrahousehold allocation can arise even without assumptions about parental preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170287
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Choix d'orientation et rentabilité de l'enseignement supérieur : une application micro économique à partir du modèle de scolarité de Mincer
Canals, Valérie; Jaoul, Magali - In: Brussels economic review 47 (2004) 3/4, pp. 449-482
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Tertiary education in a federal system : the case of Germany
Schulze, Günther G. - In: Scientific competition, (pp. 35-69). 2008
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Putting grades in context
Bar, Talia; Kadiyali, Vrinda; Zussman, Asaf - In: Journal of labor economics 30 (2012) 2, pp. 445-478
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Putting Grades in Context
Bar, Talia; Kadiyali, Vrinda; Zussman, Asaf - 2009
Concerns over grade inflation and the profusion of high grades have led institutions of higher education in the United States to adopt various grading reforms. An element common to several prominent reforms is providing information on the distribution of grades in different courses. The main...
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