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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management …

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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …

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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …

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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary … government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of … time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent governments. The two types of government differ in their education policies …

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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …

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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy

Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Education, political discontent, and emigration intentions : evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Kunt, Pinar; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019 - Revised: 10 June 2019

effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …

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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards

Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2019

We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our model distinguishes between initial ability, which is mainly determined by parental background, and eagerness to extend knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability...

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On the political economy of social security and public education

Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a European economy with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate...

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