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Higher Education in Turkey: Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?
Caner, Asena; Okten, Cagla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with …
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What’s wrong with the Philippine higher education?
Tan, Edita A. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 48 (2011) 1, pp. 147-184
Philippine higher education (HE) plays an important role in the country’s economy and is vital in achieving global competitiveness.Poor quality,undeveloped innovation system, and inequality of access caused the current dismal state of the HE system.This could be traceable to the populist...
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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link
Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …
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Private tutoring expenditures in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2004
This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the … competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread phenomenon in Turkey. Private tutoring centers are … the determinants of private tutoring expenditures in Turkey using the results of the 1994 Household Expenditure Survey …
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School quality and the performance of disadvantaged learners in South Africa
Coetzee, Marisa - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014
In South Africa, school quality within the public school system is heterogeneous and highly stratified along race, socio-economic status and geographic location. Because of the lingering effect of racial segregation, schools which historically served the white minority and accordingly received a...
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Selbst wenn Privatschulen in der Nähe sind: Sozial benachteiligte Schüler*innen sind dort kaum vertreten
Helbig, Marcel; Schmitz, Laura; Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW Wochenbericht 89 (2022) 51/52, pp. 683-690
Die Zahl der Privatschüler*innen steigt in Deutschland stetig, insbesondere in Ostdeutschland. Besonders häufig kommen sie aus Haushalten mit hohem Einkommen und hohem Bildungsniveau. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche Rolle die räumliche Verteilung von Privatschulen für die Struktur...
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Constrained School Choice in Egypt
Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017
This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach that combines survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. Some private and religious schools exist, but we find that in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738759
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Constrained school choice in Egypt
Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017
This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach that combines survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. Some private and religious schools exist, but we find that in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120881
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Selbst wenn Privatschulen in der Nähe sind : sozial benachteiligte Schüler*innen sind dort kaum vertreten
Helbig, Marcel; Schmitz, Laura; Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 89 (2022) 51/52, pp. 683-690
Die Zahl der Privatschüler*innen steigt in Deutschland stetig, insbesondere in Ostdeutschland. Besonders häufig kommen sie aus Haushalten mit hohem Einkommen und hohem Bildungsniveau. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche Rolle die räumliche Verteilung von Privatschulen für die Struktur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013538904
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Political Inclusivity and the Aspirations of Young Constituents: Identifying the Effects of a National Empowerment Policy
O'Connell, Stephen D. - Department of Economics, Graduate Center - 2014
Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...
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