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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a problematic early start in the labor market can be difficult...
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This study examines the extent to which the transition from university education to work is characterized by persistent …
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We evaluate a program that introduced bilingual education in English and Spanish in primary education in some public …. The first class receiving full treatment finished Primary education in June 2010 and they took the standardized test for … outcome of primary education to evaluate the program. We have to face a double self-selection problem. One is caused by …
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This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous … individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the … probability that a child has high ability. Education policies consist of a subsidy on private educational investments and possibly …
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We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d’Education Prioritaire), a programme started in 1982 that channels …
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note that it is crucial that transfers to education are combined with intrafamily transfers to old-family members. We … characterise the set of self-enforcing transfers and show that there is a downward bias in the family provision of education. This … points to a number of potential effects of education policy and public pensions on human capital formation. …
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This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups … differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals … from groups with relatively few high ability individuals should receive more education than equally able individuals from …
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components play a substantial role as witnessed by the impact of the design of several policies, namely education, intellectual …
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strengthens the forces of comparative advantage. Finally, we examine an aspect of education policy concerning the spread of human …
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