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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307

The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943

Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703784

Diploma No Problem : Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318996

The optimal timing of school tracking

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004

We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early tracking, and the costs of early selection, which lead to later tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study...

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Why is the timing of school tracking so heterogeneous?

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2005

Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization...