Dans ce document nous estimons le modele collectif d'offres de travail de Chiappori et al. (1998) sur donnees francaises recentes en simulant la contrainte budgetaire des menages. Pour cela nous avons pris en compte l'impot sur les revenus ainsi que les principales prestations familiales. Les...

The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In...

The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In...

Over the 1960s and 1970s, France undertook a large-scale expansion of preschool enrollment. As a result, during this period, the enrollment rate of 3 years old children rose from 35% to 90% and that of 4 years old rose from 60% to virtually 100%. This paper evaluates the eect of such an...

This study empirically estimated the long-run and short-run impact of federal government human capital spending on human capital development in Nigeria. The study was motivated by the fact that despite growth in public spending in the past decade Nigeria still ranks low in human capital...

This paper assesses the applicability of a dynamic discrete choice model in accounting for the observed OLS and IV estimates of the Mincer equation parameter on returns to education. I estimate a dynamic model of schooling and employment choices using an extended version of Keane and Wolpin...

The paper presents the analysis of students’ scores in compulsory examination administered in the last grade of the gymnasium. The subject of the research were the results from six competence areas in years 2002 and 2010 obtained by gymnasium graduates in Lower Silesia districts. The conducted...

One of the part of the Polish external examination system in preliminary education is the Gymnasium Examination. It is the first examination taken by the students, having serious impact on their prospective educational path, and because of its importance, a comprehensive and extensive study of...

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of working in the twelve months preceding the date of leaving high school, either as a graduate or as a dropout, on the probability of graduation. To do so, I use Statistics Canada's 1991 School Leavers Survey and its 1995 Follow-up. Given that...

Private tutoring is a widespread phenomenon in many developing countries, including Vietnam. Using data mainly from the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys 1997-1998 and 1992-1993, from Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training, and from local journals and newspapers for analysis, this book...