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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Economics of Education Review</I>. Volume 38, pages 51-63.<P> Recent … studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of … boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We conduct an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255713
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The Role of Information in the Take-up of Student Loans
Booij, Adam; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
Policies need not only to be well designed to effectively address market failures, but their parameters also need to be part of agents’ information sets. This is illustrated by government student loans in the Netherlands which are intended to alleviate liquidity constraints. Despite generous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137146
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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on … achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838613
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Capital Market Failure, Adverse Selection and Equity Financing of Higher Education
Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder J.G. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market … solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some … equityfinancing of education coupled to provision of some income insuranceis the optimal way to finance education when private markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256826
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The Role of Information in the Take-up of Student Loans
Booij, Adam; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775711001427">'Economics of Education Review'</A>, 31(1), 33-44.<p>Policies need not only to be well designed to effectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257564
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the …-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255487
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the …-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042232
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501
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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?
Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This discussion paper has resulted in ch. 4 of <A href="http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=edksC0nRPZYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=allesintitel:+%22Labor+Market+Institutions+and+Public+Regulation%22&ots=-umxBkjdnT&sig=oeFDTjhnSeo-w-4nuTjTJpuaUr8#v=onepage&q=&f=false">'Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation'</A>, pp. 123-61, (Jonas Agell, Michael Keen, Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.)), 2004, MIT Press, 228 p.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136877
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867507