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education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …
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not enough to overturn my conclusions. Instrumentation reveals that reverse causality running from education to natural …
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This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...
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concentrate education's subsides at the basic school rather than at college education. …
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mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …
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This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
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to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process … households' investments in education and utilisation of child labour. …
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A woman may choose to become more educated, partly because she wishes to emulate those around her. A behavioral model suggests that she is less likely to lose her baby than the less educated by flouting basic rules of health. Estimates of a three-equation model suggest that low-weight births are...
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, particularly in the domain of total years of education. However, there were no significant long-term benefits for boys. These …
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This paper describes a new method for assigning letter grades to students based on their raw scores, which I call Multi-Curve Grading (MCG). The intuition behind the method is that a class can be composed of several different subgroups, each of which should be assigned a different grade. In...
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