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Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …

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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouede, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

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Decentralizing Education Resources : School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2015

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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education

Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - 2023

We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village level, allowing us to estimate its causal...

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Striving for Excellence : University Competition, Quality Perceptions, and Ability Sorting

Fischer, Mira - 2014

We study the effects of a label awarded to universities for excellence in research on students' perception of educational quality and enrollment in subsequent admission terms. Using a representative student survey we find that students evaluate the teaching and supervision quality of their...

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University Cost Structure in Taiwan

Fu, Tsu-tan; Huang, Cliff J.; Tien, Flora F. - 2008

In this paper we demonstrate that the measures of scale and scope economies may be elusive if failing to consider quality variation among universities and endogeneity of congestion in students learning and living facility utilization. Empirical results show that the private and highly congested...

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Increasing Degree Attainment Among Low-Income Students : The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality

Barr, Andrew C.; Castleman, Benjamin L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

A college degree offers a pathway to economic mobility for low-income students. Using a multi-site randomized controlled trial combined with administrative and survey data, we demonstrate that intensive advising during high school and college significantly increases bachelor's degree attainment...

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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014

This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised Propensity Score of Hirano and Imbens, which relies on...

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