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Higher Education Funding Reforms : A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Azmat, Ghazala - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and … outcomes. Over the last two decades – through three major reforms in 1998, 2006 and 2012 – undergraduate university education … school-aged children) from lower education to higher education, we document the socio-economic distributional effects of the …

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The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School

Green, Francis - 2010

focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and state educated individuals in Britain. It …

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Looking Back on the Lessons of 'Higher Education and Developing Countries : Peril and Promise': Perspectives on China and India

Bloom, David E. - 2016

In 2000, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise was published. This report, cosponsored by The … World Bank and UNESCO, came at a time of transition in higher education worldwide and helped shape higher education policy …

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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

Heckman, James J. - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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Understanding the Response to High-Stakes Incentives in Primary Education

Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2021

This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...

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The Profit Motive in the Classroom - Friend or Foe?

Henrekson, Magnus; Elert, Niklas - 2023

Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity for knowledge-enhancing innovation as crucial and explore this question by examining Swedish...

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Reflections on the US College Loans System : Lessons from Australia and England

Barr, Nicholas - 2018

There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the design of US student loans. Specifically, loans are...

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Tuition Fees and Educational Attainment

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show...

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Can Gifted and Talented Education Raise the Academic Achievement of All High-Achieving Students?

Booij, Adam S. - 2017

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted and talented (GT) program with selective program admission based on past achievement. We construct three complementary estimates of the program's impact on student achievement....

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Equal Opportunity Through Higher Education : Theory and Evidence on Privilege and Ability

Arbel, Yuval - 2017

We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA … education loans increases neither human capital stock nor aggregate consumption, but only yields income redistribution mainly …

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