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à une taxe qui financerait l'éducation en présence d'évasion fiscale. Nous construisons un modèle à générations d …'agents dans lequel deux régimes d'éducation sont définis. Le premier est privé en l'absence d'état et le second est public. Dans … le régime privé, les agents financent l'éducation via un transfert de bien à l'école. Dans le régime public, l …
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quality of education? What lessons can we take from British Columbia’s experience with greater school choice? In 2002, British … introducing greater school choice into their public education systems. …
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An analysis of the results in the provision of public education under different institutional contexts is carried out … for Colombia where, during the decentralization process, different degrees of autonomy to manage education public … production functions, in order to determine differences in costs and technical efficiency in the provision of education across …
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In this policy paper we discussed a broad range of topics covering student access to computers at home and school, different uses of computers for learning and the impact of ICT use on different groups of students. Introducing computers into schools generates both new opportunities and...
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We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. We have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of laptop delivery for every student in...
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As part of the Country Programme preparation activities, a rapid assessment on child labour and education was … undertaken with a specific interest in the programme implications for IPEC. This study looked at child labour and education … issues, not only to understand child labour, but also to understand its implications for the design of education policies and …
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While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...
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account the social benefits of education. Our note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human capital …, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external marginal … social interactions. We propose a policy of decentralization of the optimal education . …
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We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
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Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
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