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Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However … public provision of education. The political process that I analyse involves endogenous parties. Parties have a unique role … of different groups in society to compromise with one another. I find that public provision of education arises as an …
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and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …
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This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
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, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...
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