نتایج جستجو برای: i28

تعداد نتایج: 194  

2010
Tarjei Havnes Magne Mogstad

Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children’s long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged children. Therefore, a critical element in evaluating universal child care systems is to measure ...

2008
Fang Lai Elisabeth Sadoulet Alain de Janvry

One major concern with public school open enrollment programs is the potential for parents’ school selection errors to adversely affect their children’s academic achievement. In this study of the Beijing middle school open enrollment program, we estimate the degree to which children’s school outcomes were negatively affected by the poor choices their parents made during the school selection pro...

2004
James J. Heckman Dimitriy V. Masterov IZA Bonn

Skill Policies for Scotland This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that early disadvantages produce severe later disadvantages that are hard to rem...

2009
Nicole Schneeweis Martina Zweimüller

In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the age of 10. We argue that early tracking creates inefficiencies because the earlier the track choice has to be made, the more it is influenced by factors other than innate ability. Recent evidence suggests that the relative age of a student within a grade is related to his or h...

2011
Matthew Harding Carlos Lamarche

Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope parameter estimator is asymptotically Gaussian. Monte Carlo studies are carried out to investigate the finite sample perfo...

2016
Hai-Anh H. Dang F. Halsey Rogers Mark Bray Miriam Bruhn Hanan Jacoby

During Vietnam’s two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its educational attainment has risen rapidly—macro trends that are consistent with the hypothesis of a quantity-quality tradeoff in child-rearing. We investigate whether the micro-level evidence supports the hypothesis that Vietnamese parents are in fact making a tradeoff between q...

1999
Sudhanshu Handa Peter-John Gordon

Universities in developing countries are often faced with the twin burden of increasing demand for tertiary education and a shrinking share of the government education budget. Cost-effective delivery of university education requires designing appropriate programs and admissions policies that do not compromise academic standards. This paper critically analyzes the admissions policy by the Univer...

2011
Marcello Sartarelli

Performance targets are ubiquitous in all areas of an individual’s life, such as education, jobs, sport competitions and charity donations. In this paper I assess whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students’ subsequent behaviour. This is helpful to test whether motivation and effort by students, parents and schools, that the targets may induce, may deter rat...

2013
Timothy J. Bartik

This paper uses a regression discontinuity model to examine the effects on kindergarten entrance assessments of the Kalamazoo County Ready 4s (KC Ready 4s) program, a half-day pre-K program for four-year-olds in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. The results are based on test scores and other characteristics of up to 220 children participating in KC Ready 4s, with data coming from both 2011–2012 and 2...

2012
Isaac Ehrlich Yong Yin

The Problem of the Uninsured The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called “self-insurance” and “self-protection”, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating ...

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