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Choice Architecture versus Price : Comparing the Effects of Changes in the U.S. Student Loan Market
Ang, Xiaoling - 2016
We show that changes in choice architecture have a large effect on student loan decisions while we do not find significant effects of sizeable interest rate changes. We evaluate the effect of two polices implemented in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Education: (1) the requirement that all...
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Taking education to the next level : what can be learned from benchmarking education across economies?
Chun, Natalie; Gentile, Elisabetta - 2020
gaps; strategic budgeting that provides programs for at-risk students; teacher quality that ensures wages are high and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181900
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Student loans and repayment : theory, evidence and policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2014
have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent evidence on the extent to which students are able to obtain … student credit arrangements that balance three important objectives: (i) providing credit for students to access college and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457242
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Work-Based Learning in U.S. Higher Educational Policy
Raelin, Joseph A. - 2012
the on-campus curriculum is only loosely formed, and students are not often given a chance to reflect concurrently and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044456
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Dismal Science : The Shortcomings of U.S. School Choice Research and How to Address Them
Merrifield, John D. - 2008
Pressing questions about the merits of market accountability in K-12 education have spawned a large scholarly literature. Unfortunately, much of that literature is of limited relevance, and some of it is misleading. The studies most widely cited in the United States used intense scrutiny of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214961
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User Charges and the Financing of K-12 Public Education in the United States
Wassmer, Robert W.; Fisher, Ronald C. - 2000
In this paper, we first offer economic arguments in support of greater consideration of user charges to fund public primary and secondary education. Second, to better understand why these economic arguments have not had further influence, a regression analysis shows the factors responsible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126207
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Public funding and enrolment into higher education in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela Maria - 2002
In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750233
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Public funding and enrolment into higher education in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela Maria - 2002
In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411560
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Private Higher Education : A Perspective from the United States
Schukoske, Jane E. - 2010
This chapter was written for a book published in India. The anticipated audience for this paper is generally for residents of India. Reading news reports and some academic commentary in India, I find that private higher education is very readily berated and dismissed. This is surprising to me,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206243
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Can gifted and talented education raise the academic achievement of all high-achieving students?
Booij, Adam S.; Haan, Ferry; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2017
We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …
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