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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that higher average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for local residents with minimal education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) March, pp. 1-10

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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...

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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Intergenerational return to human capital

Devereux, Paul J. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …

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Teenage childbearing and labor market implications for women

Levine, Phillip B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...

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Public-sector outsourcing

Poutvaara, Panu - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …

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Is the return to education the same for everybody?

Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …

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