Essays On Inequality And The Economics Of Education
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Essays On Inequality And The Economics Of Education
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Author : Mayuri Chaturvedi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Essays On Inequality And The Economics Of Education written by Mayuri Chaturvedi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
This dissertation discusses some of the causes and consequences of inequality, vertical and horizontal, some theoretically and others empirically. In doing so, I try to touch upon old and new themes in the economics literature, as old as rent seeking and as new as the effect of cultural norms.The first essay reflects on the inequality of opportunity as manifest in the quality of education available to families in India. The paper explores the relative roles of the quality of schools and household attributes on a household's choice of school in India. I find that income is the most important predictor of a household's choice of school, with a doubling of per capita income increasing the likelihood of choosing a private school over a public school by 10 percentage points. Public schools can rarely compete with private schools even with comparable infrastructure and free school supplies. As incomes rise (India's GDP has nearly doubled in the last 10 years), it is reasonable to expect that there will be de facto higher demand for private schooling and not public.The second essay is a theoretical examination of inequality-generating rent seeking and the feedback mechanism between the two. In this paper, I model rent seeking in an unequal endowment economy to analyze the conditions under which more inequality leads to more rent seeking. I find that, when rent-seeking costs are fixed, a more unequal economy fosters a greater proportion of rentiers. When rent-seeking costs are flexible, the proportion of rentiers shrinks with more inequality. However, both the quantity of rents per person and the resources wasted in pursuing rent-seeking activities increase.In the third essay, I link the education choices of women to gender-specific norms of marriage. Hypergamy (the practice of women "marrying up" by caste, age, education or any indicator of economic well-being) implies that too much education could lower women's prospects of finding a suitable spouse. To understand its impact on pre-marital investments in education, this project studies women's choice of educational attainment as a function of men's. To do so, I examine the impact of an exogenous change in the schooling level of men on the schooling level of women in the United States in the last 50 years. The source of variation is the change in US' immigration policy in 1965, which has been documented to have considerably altered the demography and skill pool in the US since 1965. I find evidence of a positive relationship between men and women's education outcomes. This is a result suggestive of hypergamy and its dragging effect on women's education. The result is robust to the use of another control group: immigrant women in the US.
Four Essays On The Economics Of Education And Inequality
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Author : Markus Zimmermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Essays On Education Investment Income Inequality And Economic Growth
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Author : Tin-Chun Lin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Essays On Education Investment Income Inequality And Economic Growth written by Tin-Chun Lin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Education, Higher categories.
The purpose of this book is to learn the relationship among education, productivity, income distribution, and economic growth, as well as to link the structure of the educational system to the economic and social character of the society. Essay 1 examines the equilibrium levels of public and private education in a model where public and private education can exist at the same time. There is no possibility for collapse of the public education system; however, the private education system will collapse in the long run if human capital grows faster in the public education sector than in the private education sector. Income inequality declines over time, and a heterogeneous economy becomes a homogeneous society in the long run. As long as income convergence exists in an economy, a balance growth path exists in the long run. Essay 2 investigates the effects of investment in education and the role of technical progress on economic growth in Taiwan in 1964 - 2000. Education provides a positive and significant effect on output growth in Taiwan, but the role of technical progress does not appear to be extraordinarily important.
Two Essays On The Economics Of Education And Inequality
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Author : Justin Coger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Two Essays On The Economics Of Education And Inequality written by Justin Coger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
With the first essay, I estimate the effects of high school advanced mathematics credits and mathematics SAT scores on the percentile rank of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) respondents on the income distribution of their age peers and the income of the NLSY97 adults by quantile in 2019. I utilize data on high school advanced mathematics credits, SAT mathematics scores, and income from the NLSY97. This essay contributes to the literature on the economic returns to high school mathematics coursework. Previous work has not examined the effects of advanced math credits and SAT math scores on the two outcomes that I examine. I find significant positive effects of advanced math credits on income percentile rank and income by quantile. I also find statistically significant effects of three different measures of exposure to STEM reform on the two labor market outcomes. The results have implications for educators and policy makers hoping to emphasize the importance of developing quantitative skills in preparation for the labor market.
Essays On Inequality And Education
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Author : Erika Ekström
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Super Inequality Theoretical Essays In Economics And Social Policy
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Author : Christian Aspalter
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-16
Super Inequality Theoretical Essays In Economics And Social Policy written by Christian Aspalter and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-16 with Political Science categories.
This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein’s X-efficiency theory. Being trained as an economist and social policy scientist, the author leaps out of the comfort zone of most social policy scientists and experts, right into the exciting world of micro-economic theory, and then extending and connecting those theories to explain major social, political and economic conundrums of our time. In doing so, the book offers a new set of theoretical—and practical—explanations derived from the general proposition of micro-economic theory, of how government officers, policymakers, administrators and the people themselves alike are, by and large, motivated in their daily as well as strategic (long-term) decision-making. Using a meta-analytical approach (based on a number of grand theories), this book also explains systemic factors behind human behavior and the thereof resulting shortcomings in lifetime outcomes (health, wealth and happiness of a person) and at the same time societal, policy-making, and economic outcomes on societal level, and in global comparison. The outcomes thereof can be measured exactly (and hence validated), especially through the method of empirical comparative social science/economic research. Here, the author also (but not only) introduces the new method of using Aspalter's Standardized Relative Performance (SRP) Index in measuring exactly complex, aggregate performances of multiple governments, and that at the same time also across the entire world.
Essays On The Economics Of Education In Developing Countries
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Author : Asankha Pallegedara
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2011-10
Essays On The Economics Of Education In Developing Countries written by Asankha Pallegedara and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with categories.
Economists and policy makers around the world believe that education promotes economic growth and reduces the poverty. Investment in education helps to increase individual productivity that provide better earnings, and reduces the inequality in the society. Many governments in developing countries realized the importance of education and implemented new policy initiatives to improve education. Many developing countries introduced free education policies, school expansion programs, and conditional cash transfer programs to increase the quantity of education. Although these new policies help to achieve significant progress in education, many children in developing countries are still not enrolling in schools or receiving a low-quality education. Furthermore, gender disparity in education is another concern in many developing countries. This study assess both quantity and quality aspect of education policy in developing countries using two case studies in Uganda and Sri Lanka.
Three Essays On The Economics Of Education
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Author : Sabine Zander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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In my third paper, using school-fixed effects regression models, I investigate socioeconomic status gaps in students' cognitive achievement in grade nine within different school types in Germany. I also explore the association between socioeconomic background and attainment of the intermediate secondary certificate and transition to upper secondary education in multi-track schools. My results provide suggestive evidence that socioeconomic status gaps in cognitive achievement exist within all school types. I also find that more privileged students are significantly more likely to earn an intermediate certificate or transition into upper secondary education. The decomposition of primary and secondary effects reveals that secondary effects are stronger at this transition in the German school system.
Three Essays In The Economics Of Education
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Author : John Michael Gilraine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Three Essays In The Economics Of Education written by John Michael Gilraine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
In principal, public education provides a child's key means of skill accumulation, irrespective of background. In practice, however, the actual performance of public schooling is a disappointment, with stakeholders concerned that the current state of public education heightens inequality and prepares students inadequately for the workforce or higher learning. This thesis develops and applies novel econometric techniques to highlight education policies that may increase student achievement and reduce the pervasive test score gaps that plague public education today. Chapter 1 sets out a new approach that enables me to credibly identify dynamic interactions among school inputs for the first time. Such an approach is rarely adopted in empirical research due to stringent requirements: in an observational setting, identifying dynamic interactions requires period-by-period randomization. I overcome this challenge by combining rich administrative data with a rule whereby students are held accountable only if there are forty or more students in their demographic group. The rule provides useful year-to-year variation, supplying the backbone of my identification strategy. I then estimate the technology structurally and consider the efficacy of alternative accountability schemes: conditioning on initial test scores rather than prior test scores can increase average achievement and reduce inequality. Chapter 2 proposes an approach that allows researchers to identify separate treatment components from a single discontinuity. As an application, I consider the discontinuity associated with class size caps -- a widespread education policy used to reduce class sizes. My approach exploits the asymmetry between school-grades entering versus exiting treatment to distinguish the pure effect of changes in class size from the effect of a newly-hired teacher. Using data from New York City, I find that class size reductions increase student achievement, though these gains are counteracted by the newly-hired teacher. Chapter 3 uses a regression discontinuity design to investigate the merits of decentralized public goods provision in the context of Title I, the largest U.S. federal education funding program. My results indicate that the negligible impact of Title I is caused by its centralized nature: in a decentralized form, Title I generates a substantial improvement in student achievement, particularly for the socioeconomically disadvantaged.
Empirical Essays On The Economics Of Inequality Education And Health
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Author : Bui Thi Kim Thanh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Empirical Essays On The Economics Of Inequality Education And Health written by Bui Thi Kim Thanh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.