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Universities as Stakeholders in Their Students' Careers : On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
McKenzie, Tom; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135633
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Econometrics of valuing income contingent student loans using administrative data : groups of English students
Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Erve, Laura van der - 2019
Income contingent loans are an increasingly popular tool for funding higher education. These loans have desirable features, but also potentially high overall government write-offs in the long run. This latter fact has been well documented, but little is known about how those write-offs vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991492
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772340
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773703
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovid, Marco - 2021
We use the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study the attributes of top-scoring (four-star) publications in Economics and Econometrics. Although official documents contain aggregate scores for each institution, we show how these aggregates can be used to infer the score awarded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585462
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Raising Education Achievement and Breaking the Cycle of Inequality in the United Kingdom
Brook, Anne-Marie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them. This has increased the importance of educating a large proportion of the population to much higher standards than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046241
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Le financement et l'évaluation de la performance des universités: l'expérience anglaise
Atallah, Gamal; Boyer, Marcel - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2004
Nous passons en revue les principales caractéristiques du système de financement des universités du Royaume-Uni et plus particulèrement du système d'évaluation de la recherche universitaire. L'étude présente un survol historique de l'évolution de l'évaluation de la performance des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491469
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An Adult Approach to Further Education
Wolf, Alison - 2009
In the UK, further education is a bastion of Soviet central planning that has wholly avoided the market-based reforms that have been adopted in other parts of the state sector. In terms of total spending, further education is important, but hitherto - perhaps because of its complexity - there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200243
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Raising Education Achievement and Breaking the Cycle of Inequality in the United Kingdom
Brook, Anne-Marie - 2008
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them. This has increased the importance of educating a large proportion of the population to much higher standards than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444051
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VAT Taxing of UK Private School Fees- Pros, Cons & Potential Consequences
Macey-Dare, Rupert - 2023
state sector of up to 600,000 former private school students with an expected recurrent net cost shock to the UK Treasury of … some previously private students, over to the state sector and whose state school fees now need to paid for out of general … on different UK school students, so an increase in this measure of educational equality, but at the potential cost of …
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