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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"

Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015

, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …

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High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School

Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing - 2019

Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as...

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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms

Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2022

Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is a large and selective Chinese high school, where...

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Long-term effects of environmental policies on educational performance: Evidence from China

Khelifa, Siwar; He, Jie - 2023

This paper examines the overall long-term effects of the Two Control Zones policy, implemented by the Chinese government to reduce air pollution, on children's human capital development. Estimates show that exposure to this policy, during the year of birth, is associated, 15 years later, with an...

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High-performing peers and female STEM choices in school

Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing - 2019

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Bridging the digital divide in the G20 : skills for the new age

Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2017

The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...

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