Showing 1 - 10 of 143
's school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407681
This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076924
the number of public-school applications but a negative impact on private- school applications. Finally, we find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125047
role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Education has a significant reducing effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134619
including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407632
In much of the developing world daughters receive lower education and other investments than do their brothers, and may … effects of virilocality on female disadvantage using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey. We find little support for … Indonesia masks differences according to post-marital residential practice. Virilocal groups do not have "missing daughters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407654
including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407666
evidence suggesting that in Indonesia there is no problem of "missing daughters" and that patterns of births, birth spacing and … secondary education and inheritance, and disappeared for primary education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407740
schooling differently. While parental education is crucial for child school enrolment at the primary level, sibling composition … school enrolment/grade attainment. This paper applies a unique correlated sequential probit model with unobserved individual … specific heterogeneity to determine the nature of school progression at primary, secondary and post-secondary levels in Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408323
interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of … education is no longer an individual exercise of present and future utility maximisation as suggested by more formal human … investment. We calculate the effect of individual and interactive learning in determining the wage of Chilean workers aged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408325