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Piolatto, Amedeo - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2009

, introducing selective vouchers induces a Pareto improvement. Some agents use vouchers in equilibrium to buy private education …

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School Systems and Efficiency and Equity of Education

Hur, Jung; Changhui, Kang - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore - 2007

of each system for efficiency and equity of education. This paper examines impacts of different systems of student …

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Education and Growth: A Simple Model with Complicated Dynamics

Palivos, Theodore; Varvarigos, Dimitrios - 2009

We construct a simple model of education and growth in which young adults (children) spend a fraction of their time and … old adults (parents) spend a fraction of their income on education. Both a strategic complementarity and an intergener …

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Increasing Learner Retention in a Simulated Learning Network Using Indirect Social Interaction

Koper, Rob E.J.R. - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8 (2005) 2, pp. 5-5

A learning network is a network of persons who create, share, support and study units of learning (courses, workshops, lessons, etc.) in a specific knowledge domain. Such networks may consist of a large number of alternative units of learning. One of the problems learners face in a learning...

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education and Poverty.

Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

High welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system for lone parents: activity requirements were brought in, time limits imposed and benefit levels raised. To evaluate the reform we introduce an estimator that, unlike the much...

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Why Educated Mothers don’t Make Educated Children? A Statistical Study in the Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling

Pronzato, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

strand of research: samples of small size, with low variability in parental education, not randomly selected from the …

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …

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Education and Skills: An Assessment of Recent Canadian Experience

Riddell, W. Craig - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Canada’s recent experience in education and skill formation. In his paper, W. Craig Riddell attempts such an assessment. He … provides a careful examination of trends in education expenditures and outcomes in Canada compared to other countries, looks at … trends in the incidence of education, and analyzes the link between education and labour market success. Riddell’s overall …

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 11 (2005) Fall, pp. 1-2

This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower information and communications technology investment in...

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The Irish Economic Boom: What Can We Learn?

Fortin, Pierre - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 19-31

article Pierre Fortin from the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research provides a …-friendly industrial and tax policies; stick to free or low-cost secondary and post-secondary education; and ensure aggregate supply can …

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