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Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? : evidence from urban Mexico
Araujo, María Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018
students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881778
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Credit Constraints in Education : Evidence from International Data
Mohamed, Ben Mimoun - 2008
material factors are larger in rich countries than in poor ones. Our estimation results also show that the way public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771197
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The Incentive Effects of Higher Education Subsidies on Student Effort
Sahin, Aysegul - 2004
This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070096
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583555
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050
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Improving Access and Quality in the Indian Education System
Hill, Sam; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224863
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Why is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural Mexico
Leopold, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318626
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico
Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320684
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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021
This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584602
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Los rendimientos de la educación en México
Morales-Ramos, Eduardo - 2011
This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that … Mexico are between 8.2% and 8.4 %. On the other hand, results by level of education suggest that more education is associated … level and wage. -- Private returns to education ; natural ability bias ; natural ability index ; mother's education ; Mexico. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009348036