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The aim of this paper is to understand the role of uncertainty in education choices and therefore in growth. We … the effect of this uncertainty on the behavior of the risk averse individual regarding his effort in education. The …
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In this paper we aim to understand how unemployment benefits may affect investment in education when the latter is …
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students performance. We estimate an education production function with country fixed-effect and school random-effect. We find …
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modern, conceptually clear and easy to mobilize in policy design. In this paper, we apply Roemer’s theory to education policy … close to the end of compulsory education). Using Brazilian data, we find that implementing an equal-opportunity policy … education production function, we then identify ways of reducing financial reallocations needed to achieve equality of …
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This paper examines the dynamics of the skill supply and its incidence on economic growth in the presence of education …, cross-country différences in long-term macroeconomic adjustment to education policies may be attributed, among other factors …, to the existence of a congestion effect in the education System. …
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Une grande partie des politiques de développement repose sur l'envoi de transferts aux économies connaissant des difficultés de développement. Si ces aides semblent favorables au bien être des agents, leurs effets sur la croissance de long terme des économies restent ambigus ou parfois...
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Since Collier and Hoeffler (1998, 2004), it has been supported that inequality, measured at national level, does not affect the risk of conflict. Based on a renewed theoretical framework, the purpose of the paper is to explore the role of inequality in localized conflicts. We argue that previous...
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Like active labour market programmes (ALPMs), grade repetition could generate two types of effects. Better/worse outcomes due to programme participation (i.e. the fact that pupils repeat a particular grade). This is what the existing literature on grade repetition has focused on. Another...
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Cet article analyse l'impact d'une augmentation des dépenses publiques en éducation sur la performance du système …
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This paper evaluates the effects of grade retention on attainment by exploiting a reform introduced in 2001 in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium whereby the possibility of grade retention in grade 7 was reintroduced. It uses the Synthetic Control Method to identify the best possible...
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