This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recession - an Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...

We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...

Higher education institutions are an essential, endogenous element of economic development and take part in resolving global issues. Their utilitarian role, however, may be greatly limited as a result of improper ways of financing science and didactics. The prevailing mechanism of financing...

To contribute to the debate about decentralization of education management, in this paper, we take advantage of the arbitrary rule used in Colombia to define the municipalities that can autonomously manage schools, to evaluate through a Regression Discontinuity methodology the effect of...

This research examines the effect of accountability threats for low performing schools on resource allocation decisions and provides evidence that schools act with strategic behavior only when the accountability pressure is high. We used a generalization of a traditional regression discontinuity...

Die Mehrheit der Bundesländer hat sich dafür entschieden, im Rahmen des 'Gute-KiTa-Gesetzes' Eltern in größerem Umfang als bisher bei den Gebühren für Kindertageseinrichtungen zu entlasten. Darüber, wie sich die Abschaffung von Kita-Gebühren auf den Betreuungsumfang von Kindern und das...

Frequent non-completion in optional education can be e¢ cient if dropouts optimally exercise an option rationally foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where enrollment resolves more pronounced individual uncertainty...

Die Universitäten in Deutschland sind unterfinanziert. Ob die Studierenden jedoch selber zur Finanzierung ihrer Hochschulbildung beitragen sollen, ist nach wie vor stark umstritten. Dieser Bericht weist anhand amtlicher Daten zu allen Studierenden in Deutschland nach, dass die Einführung von...

A growing body of research has begun to examine the match between student ability and university quality. Initial research focused on overmatch—where students are lower attaining than their college peers. However, more recently, attention has turned to undermatch, where students attend...