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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …
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permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …
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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …
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education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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The purpose of this paper is to study how education shapes the allocation of talent. To model the link between … education and the allocation of talent, we add two features to a Spence (1974) type of two-sector education model. First …, performance contracts give a worker incentives to choose the sector where (she believes she is) most productive. Second, education …
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