Similar Search Results

The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004

achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261798

Teaching practices and social capital

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011

performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286875

Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

worker?workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers? education. Our results, using the 1998 UK …, significantly positive effect from average workplace education. We also test for interactions between own and co-worker education … levels. However, these interactions appear negative: education is valued less highly at workplaces where education levels are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262605

Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002

We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262767

'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009

Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of … education, which is the subject of this particular inquiry. Market definition is an essential preliminary step before any … higher education, those who provide inputs into the education process, or those who fund or otherwise subsidize it. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269207

Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy: another look at the economics of marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly sell legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271277

Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274166

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

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274179

The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital

Koning, Pierre; Webbink, Dinand; Vujić, Sunčica; … - 2010

This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277127

What do social scientists know about the benefits of marriage? : A review of quantitative methodologies

Ribar, David C. - 2004

This study critically reviews quantitative methods that have been employed and evidence that has been gathered to assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical models of the determinants of different well-being outcomes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261768