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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of … education aid examine its impact on college enrolment. In this paper, we provide evidence on the causal impact of means …
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threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …
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The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of … college education subsidies and for the excess burden of income taxation caused by the college margin. We also show how the … recent structural labor literature on college education. The model incorporates multidimensional heterogeneity, idiosyncratic …
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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...
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This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The univariate analysis based on fractional integration aims to determine whether the series are I(1) (in which case markets might be efficient) or alternatively I(d) with...
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overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a free-rider effect for governments, who are not willing to subsidize … the education of agents who will work abroad. At equilibrium, the free-rider effect always dominates the competition …
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This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...
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Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
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education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign … mobility affects the governmental decision about the financial regime of higher education based on aggregated data of 22 OECD … financing share of higher education funding depends on a country's tax revenue, its GDP and the share of students enrolled in …
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