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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …
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higher education. DEA efficiency and returns to scale estimates are provided. In addition, university total factor …
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Launched in 2004, the Carolina Covenant combines grant-heavy financial aid with an array of non-financial supports for low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about 8 percentage points for eligible students in the...
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The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not … defines the quality of higher education and explains its (growing) cost continue to be debated. The Chapter surveys …
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of Education to issue temporary waivers (which expire in October of 2022) which essentially provide a path to forgiveness …
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-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …
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This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The univariate analysis based on fractional integration aims to determine whether the series are I(1) (in which case markets might be efficient) or alternatively I(d) with...
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This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The univariate analysis based on fractional integration aims to determine whether the series are I(1) (in which case markets might be efficient) or alternatively I(d) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011784
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints have recently become important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
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-profit schools, and in states with fewer public schools and lower education spending. Our results complement prior evidence on the …
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