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The Progressivity of Public Education in Greece: Empirical Findings and Policy Implications
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Koutsampelas, Christos; Tsakloglou, Panos – Education Economics, 2015
This paper examines the short-run distributional effects of publicly provided education services in Greece using static incidence analysis. Public education is found to be inequality-reducing but the progressivity of the system withers away as we move up to higher educational levels. We employ a framework of both relative and absolute inequality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Education, Articulation (Education)
The Power of "We": Effects of Psychological Collectivism on Team Performance over Time
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Dierdorff, Erich C.; Bell, Suzanne T.; Belohlav, James A. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
We examined the influences of different facets of psychological collectivism (Preference, Reliance, Concern, Norm Acceptance, and Goal Priority) on team functioning at 3 different performance depictions: initial team performance, end-state team performance, and team performance change over time. We also tested the extent to which team-member…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Team Training, Statistical Data, Psychology
Simulating the Risk of Investment in Human Capital
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Hartog, Joop; Van Ophem, Hans; Bajdechi, Simona Maria – Education Economics, 2007
The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We mimic the investment decision facing a student and simulate risky earnings profiles in alternative options, with parameters taken from the very limited evidence. The distribution of rates of return appears positively skewed. Our best estimate of "ex ante" risk in university education…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Risk