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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806721

Cross-country data on skills and the quality of schooling : a selective survey

Fuente, Ángel de la; Doménech, Rafael - 2021

variables in empirical analyses of the determinants of income and welfare levels and growth rates. A final section investigates …

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Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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Does a generous welfare state crowd out student achievement? : panel data evidence from international student tests

Falch, Torberg (contributor); … - 2008

consumption, government social expenditures, and the progressivity of the income tax system have negative effects on student …

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Awards as signals

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010

Awards are widespread in all countries and are prevalent both in the public sphere and in the private sector. This paper argues, and empirically supports, that awards serve public functions and economists should take them seriously. Using a unique cross-country data set, we suggest that awards...

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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

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Returns to ICT skills

Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016

How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...

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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002

When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...

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