European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size …. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain …

Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform … outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor … develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college … predict whether they will graduate with at least 80% probability. As a result, stylized policies that insure students against …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. Aset of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of … that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …