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The role of information in the take-up of student loans
Booij, Adam S.; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2008 - This version: April 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...
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Gender peer effects in university : evidence from a randomized experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - 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 …
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Capital market failure, adverse selection and equity financing of higher education
Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 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 …
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Good or bad? Short- versus long-term effects of multigrading on child achievement
Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard, Patrick; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; … - 2022
This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students' short- versus long-term academic achievement in Italy. We cope with the endogeneity of multigrading (and class size) through an instrumental variable identification strategy based...
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? : evidence from Ecuador
Hidalgo, Diana; Onofa, Mercedes; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2010
To raise school attendance, many programs in developing countries eliminate orreduce private contributions to education …
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What causes the positive price-turnover correlation in European housing markets?
Dröes, Martijn I.; Francke, Marc K. - 2016
This paper examines what determines the correlation between prices and turnover in European housing markets. Using a panel vector autoregressive model, we find that there is a particularly strong feedback mechanism between prices and turnover. Momentum effects are another important reason why...
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Agglomeration, innovation and regional development : theoretical perspectives and meta-analysis
Groot, Henri L. F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - 2007
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...
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Agglomeration externalities and localized employment growth
Vor, Friso de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2008
This paper addresses the question to what extent the performance of industrial sites is affected by their local economic structure and accessibility. For this aim, we test for the existence of statistically significant relationships between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity,...
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