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Practice makes voters? : effects of student mock elections on turnout
Öhrvall, Richard; Oskarsson, Sven - 2018
Student mock elections are carried out in schools around the world in an effortto increase political interest and efficacy among students. There is, however, alack of research on whether mock elections in schools enhance voter turnoutin real elections. In this paper, we examine whether the...
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Appropriation, human capital, and mandatory schooling
Glazer, Amihai; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2001
all. Moreover, it is the optimal policy for the rich, even when they fully pay for the education. …
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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Parental resources and college attendance: evidence from lottery wins
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2020
We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...
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Parental resources and college attendance : evidence from lottery wins
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2020
We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387524
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Quality-quantity tradeoffs in pricing public secondary education
Garlick, Robert - 2019
Most governments provide some public education and must choose how to finance it from fiscal transfers and user fees. I … negative effects on education outcomes …
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School Attendance During a Pandemic
Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2020
We find that, when officials relax school attendance policy as a prophylactic measure against an epidemic, students of higher early high school performance take more absences, while students of lower early high school performance keep going to school. Early high school performance is positively...
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Access to education and disability insurance claims
Halapuu, Vivika - 2021
The paper provides the first causal evidence of how access to education affects disability insurance (DI) claims among … results highlight that the design of education systems is a crucial determinant of DI claims among young people and that … reforms which limit low-skilled youths' access to education can have lasting detrimental effects on their labor supply …
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Age-specific education inequality, education mobility and income growth
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; KC, Samir; Sauer, Petra - 2013
of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …
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Educational levels and school attendance
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