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This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
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discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and student loan take-up decisions. We use administrative panel data and …
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markets in developing countries are likely to grow further as teacher quality becomes a greater focus of education policy …
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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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In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students …
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …
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This research examines the effect of accountability threats for low performing schools on resource allocation decisions and provides evidence that schools act with strategic behavior only when the accountability pressure is high. We used a generalization of a traditional regression discontinuity...
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
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