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it should instead rely on transfers for redistributing income ex post. To this end, we develop a model of education in … a skilled worker depends on individual effort in education and on public resources, but educational risk still causes … of education by public funding of the educational sector has a significant effect and that this increases efficiency in …
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it should instead rely on transfers for redistributing income ex post. To this end, we develop a model of education in … a skilled worker depends on individual effort in education and on public resources, but educational risk still causes … of education by public funding of the educational sector has a significant effect and that this increases efficiency in …
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The World Economic Forum's Global Education Initiative (GEI) report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs provides … of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver. The report highlights the importance of … entrepreneurship education for developing the skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to create jobs, generate economic growth …
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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461554
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
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This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …
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