-engineer the centralized admission system of the Danish tertiary education sector and simulate equilibria under counterfactual …

resources received by schools from a targeted voucher program implemented in Chile. We merge this dataset with education and … labor market administrative records for the universe of students enrolled in the Chilean education system. We find that an … that the positive effect of voucher spending only holds for private voucher schools that operate in local education markets …

Following the widespread adoption of free primary education, African policymakers are now considering making secondary … school free, but little is known about the private and social benefits of free secondary education. We exploit randomized … model to interpret the labor market results and help think through the welfare impact of free secondary education …

higher education. It is followed by a brief summary of the 8 new papers in this Special Issue of the Journal of Education …

Education Finance by exploring how the external social benefits of higher education contribute to higher sustainable rates of … the major role of education, and of higher education and its relation to new ideas, as well as of education finance both … intuitively and using a formal model. Empirical estimates of social externalities specific to higher education are summarized. The …

paper studies how differences in school quality affect the returns to education of urban and rural residents in China using … their Hukou status at age 12, a critical age when basic education is completed. We find that after controlling for family … background, the gap in returns to education between urban and rural residents increases over the schooling stages; the gaps are …

infrastructure, science, and education. There is an important procedural obstacle to funding public investments — a process of …

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on … experience one year after leaving education. The second part conditioned the eligibility for this unemployment benefit for youth …