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Vouchers, school choice and the access to higher education

Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2002

at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …

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Student aid and the distribution of educational attainment

Jones, Maggie - 2016

I examine the effect of student aid on the distribution of educational attainment in the context of a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can increase average educational attainment; however, these...

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Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 697-812). 2006

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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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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Higher education funding reforms : a comprehensive analysis of educational and labor market outcomes in England

Azmat, Ghazala; Simion, Stefania - 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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Aiding education? : the effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria

Haer, Roos van der; Østby, Gudrun - 2023

Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …