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the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …
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the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822629
surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
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The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...
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the goals of school-to-work to emphasize post-secondary education. The Philadelphia Longitudinal Educational Study (PELS … suggest positive effects on aspirations for higher education and on college attendance. In addition, there is some evidence …
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In the public discourse, education is usually considered as the main vehicle for the promotion of social equality and … social mobility. The paper surveys the existing literature and concludes that the relationship between education and … inequality in Greece is strong. Inequities are evident at all levels of the education system; especially as regards access to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267463
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban....
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We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
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The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
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