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Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.

Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...

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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from tracking if teachers would otherwise have incentives to teach to the top of …

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Which Factors Determine Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Spanish Evidence

Dolado, Juan J.; Morales, Eduardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyses the determinants of academic performance of first-year undergraduate students in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. We focus on a few core subjects which differ in their degree of mathematical complexity. Type of school, specialization...

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Thailand’s Student Loan Fund: An Analysis of Interest Rate Subsidies and Repayment Hardships

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha; Polsiri, Piruna; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper presents analysis of the implicit subsidies and repayment hardships of Thailand’s Student Loan Fund (SLF). Comparisons are made between the current SLF with alternative similar schemes, assuming different rates of interest and loan repayment periods. We find that the implicit...

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Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reform

Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students’ future economic fortunes, and an unwillingness of banks to provide loans because of the absence of collateral. It follows that without government intervention there will be both socially...

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Income Contingent Student Loans for Thailand: Alternatives Compared

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper illustrates the extent of implicit taxpayer subsidies under four possible income contingent loan (ICL) arrangements for Thailand: TICAL, implemented in 2007 only, a variant of TICAL, and two alternative ICL schemes. The implicit taxpayer subsidy calculated with respect to average...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives … separate the effects of the monitoring and the financial incentives, we estimate a structural dynamic labour supply model that … to the financial incentives. The estimated elasticity of labour with respect to the incentive is 0.306. Our model …

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...

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