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Optimal need-based financial aid
Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019
We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139572
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Optimal need-based financial aid
Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2018
We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921506
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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education : what can be learned?
Riddell, Abby Rubin - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611809
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Externe Effekte der Bildung : Mythos oder Rechtfertigung für öffentliche Bildungsfinanzierung?
Langner, Benedikt (contributor) - 2007
anderer Argumentationslinien. -- Public Education ; Education Reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003562059
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Student aid and the distribution of educational attainment
Jones, Maggie - 2016
I examine the effect of student aid on the distribution of educational attainment in the context of a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can increase average educational attainment; however, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572408
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Vouchers, school choice and the access to higher education
Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2002
at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611938
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Choices for spending government revenue : new African oil, gas, and mining economies
Witter, Sophie; Jakobsen, Maja - 2017
health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672032
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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016
because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493939
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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325989
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Teacher pay, class size and local governments : evidence from the Latvian reform
Hazans, Mihails - 2010
This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156106