We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successful graduation depends on individual effort to study and public resources. After realization of risk, they either work as skilled or as unskilled worker. We show that an optimal public policy consists of tuition fees combined with skill-contingent loans, lump-sum transfers/taxes, and public funding of the educationa...

Much has recently been written about the educational functions of health examinations of school pupils. Studies have been concerned with the number of defects discovered and with the extent of their correction. While a major purpose of the examination may be the detection and relief of adverse conditions, action toward this end depends upon the understanding of parent and of pupil as well as up...

Despite the growing prominence of theoretical analysis of inequality of opportunity over the past twenty years, empirical work towards the normative evaluation of real-world policies has been minimal. This paper seeks to address this issue. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemer’s model of equality of opportunity. We...

Clinical and translational research extends basic science research into the clinical realm, bringing the latest advances and potential treatments to the patients who need them. The Brown School of Public Health offers a number of educational programs that trains physicians and researchers in these research methods. The goal of these programs is to help students develop an independent research c...

Although learning resources are often considered as key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources. The OECD’s OER project asks why this is happening, who is involved and what the most important implications are of this ...