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Peer effects, social multipliers and migrants at school: An international comparison

Entorf, Horst; Lauk, Martina - 2006

This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social...

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Trade, education, and the shrinking middle class

Blanchard, Emily; Willmann, Gerald - 2013

liberalization. Comparing trade and education policy, we find that targeted education subsidies are more effective than tariffs as a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291881

Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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Efficiency and economies of scale in academic knowledge production

Felderer, Bernhard; Obersteiner, Michael - 1999

This paper investigates the properties of knowledge production in academic research using a panel of 17 OECD countries reaching from 1989 to 1996. The production process is modelled using capital and labour as inputs and the number of published international journal articles and/or the number of...

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Math or science? Using longitudinal expectations data to examine the process of choosing a college major

Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2011

Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...

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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...

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Literacy traps: Society-wide education and individual skill premia

Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009

Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...

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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006

asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …

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Mixed Oligopoly in Education

Cremer, Helmuth; Maldonado, Dario - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …

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Trade, education, and the shrinking middle class

Blanchard, Emily; Willmann, Gerald - 2013

liberalization. Comparing trade and education policy, we find that targeted education subsidies are more effective than tariffs as a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292731