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School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students’ educational outcomes. Yet, the concern is that disadvantaged families are less able to exercise choice, which raises (3) equity concerns. The Boston mechanism (BM) is a procedure that is widely used...
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in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …
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This paper investigates whether individual decisions lead to equality of opportunity in education, defined in the …
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
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groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education … least important for most socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, education and wealth are health protecting but have …
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Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
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