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Education and management practices
Valero, Anna - In: Oxford review of economic policy 37 (2021) 2, pp. 302-322
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Education in Africa : what are we learning?
Evans, David K.; Mendez Acosta, Amina - 2020
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The wavering economic thought about the link between education and growth
Fodor, Máté; De Meulemeester, Jean-Luc; Rochat, Denis - 2019
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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa
Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019
This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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On the road to integration? : immigrant's demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149384
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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020
-white interracial marriages. Different from the previous studies that focus only on the role of individual education levels in …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …
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Lost boys : access to secondary education and crime
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …
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Social capital, human capital and fertility
Coppier, Raffaella; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...
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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040930
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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168737