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with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …, the paper provides a rationale for the existing ambiguous empirical evidence on the effect of school resources. The paper …
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The work defences the thesis that even ensured equal opportunities to invest in education and to get better life, even …
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We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in 2005 and apply a difference-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA...
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Discontinuities in markets and technology as well as issues of performance are roiling the field of higher education … Education" is proposed. With clearly laid out causal linkages, the model shows how the sub-components of a communication …
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With the beginning of the new millennium it has become more and more apparent that education and human capital … much and what kind of education to obtain. This literature review aims at providing a better understanding of the process … the expected returns to education. After this, we investigate the different implications of investments in general and …
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We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences before knowing their priorities at schools. A student self-selects if she decides not to apply to some schools despite being desirable. We give a theoretical explanation for this...
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Adopting the geometric concepts of a tangent line and a secant ray allows for determining the curvature (convex, concave, or linear) and the behavior of the marginal and average tax rates of an income increasing tax function. Such information helps to determine whether the tax function is...
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This paper poses the following question in the context of civil rights in education — is proportionality synonymous … areas of education. In some areas, male interests are stronger than female interests, and in other areas the reverse is true … rights for both men and women in education, a reality that, I argue, civil rights theoreticians and advocates don't want to …
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Over the past fifty years, elected officials in the name of education reform have promulgated countless policies. Yet … the major education policies implicitly or explicitly makes this connection. This paper highlights the incoherence among …
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