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An Approach of ICT Oriented Learning Pedagogies for Development of SAARC economies

Ganguly, Chandrima; Pal, Sanjay Kumar - In: Journal of Global Economy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 229-244

radical effect on the transformation of education and training in all sectors demonstrating how pervasive ICT has become with …

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From Parents to Children: Intergenerational Transfers---A Case Study

Kumar, Suchitra S - In: Journal of Global Economy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 205-221

This paper attempts to test whether women systematically get less education than their male siblings and is based on … systematically get less parental investment in their education than their male siblings. Thus, pure human capital models of labour …

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Investigation of Effective Factors on the Process of Corporate Entrepreneurship in Iran

Bayekolaei, Mehran. Mokhtari - In: Journal of Global Economy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 222-236

The study of human life from the beginning of the history of creation to the present suggests that the Entrepreneurial factor plays an important role in the development of societies. In other words, we can say that Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs have been active since old times, but they...

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No cohort left behind?

Babcock, Philip; Bedard, Kelly; Schulte, Jennifer - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 3, pp. 347-354

Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged benefits of smallness—of classroom …

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Israeli Child Policy and Outcomes

Gal, John; Ajzenstadt, Mimi; Ben-Arieh, Asher; Holler, Roni - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2010

fields of education, health, cash transfers, taxation and personal social services. In addition, the labour market and …

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Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?

Neumark, David; Johnson, Hans; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 151-167

education to assess the potential for skill imbalances to emerge. Based on our formal projections, we see little likelihood of …

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Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians

Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …

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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006

This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...

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Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Picard, Natalie; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data … two stage method is used to estimate log-wage equations, taking care of education endogeneity, using birth order and the … number of siblings as instruments. The OLS estimates of returns to education are biased downwards, when females are …

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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison; Kee, Hiau - In: Journal of Population Economics 22 (2009) 2, pp. 367-397

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