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Chapter 55 Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy

Orazem, Peter F.; King, Elizabeth M. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3475-3559). 2007

considerable resources on building and equipping schools and paying teachers have contributed to global convergence in enrollment … rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …

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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan

Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

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Private tutoring expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2004

. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …

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Peers or parents? : on non-monetary incentives in schools

Wagner, Valentin; Riener, Gerhard - 2015

This paper presents the result of a field experiment on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on pupils' achievement on a mathematical multiple choice test. Our sample consists of 2113 pupils of deprived and high-achieving secondary schools in Germany. Based on a pre-study, we compare the...

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619201

The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan

Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471904

The risks and benefits of school integration for participating students : evidence from a randomized desegregation program

Bergman, Peter - 2018

receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments

Hampf, Franziska - 2020

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

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