Financial aid to college students has been widely implemented by governments indeveloped and emerging economies in an attempt to reduce the entry barriers to highereducation (HE). Understanding the extent to which these policies enable access to HE is crucialin order to unravel the effectiveness...

This paper shows that austerity-induced spending cuts harmed student performancein standardized national tests. To identify this relationship, we use cross-municipalityvariation in the timing of eligibility for the Italian Domestic Stability Pact as an exogenous shifter of local public spending....

Most countries discipline their public budget through a set of fiscal rules aiming at limiting public debt accumulation. Yet, apart from the direct effect on public finance outcomes, there is limited evidence on whether these policies affect broader socio-economic outcomes. This paper provides...

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show...

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and...

This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration reforms aimed at legalizing undocumented individuals that entered the United States as children and completed high school: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the DREAM Act. The former offers only temporary legal...

Much of the education finance literature is concerned with evaluating policies that seek to lessen the effect of economic disparities outside schools on the disparity of student outcomes within them. Examples include school finance reform to reduce schools’ reliance on local wealth, special...

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...

School funding provides the foundation for our nation's schools. Yet, school funding in most states suffers from common shortcomings that undermine the aims of schools. These shortcomings include lower funding to districts serving students with greater needs, insufficient linkage of funding...

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...