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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores
Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023
This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013542842
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Policy challenges for the next 50 years
Braconier, Henrik; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Westmore, Ben - 2014
This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374491
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Lasting Impact on Health from Natural Disasters, Potential Mechanisms and Mitigating Effects
Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2021
Exposure to extreme shocks in early life is found to have lasting impact in adulthood. Exploiting the variation in exposure measured by age and intensity of earthquake, we evaluate the impact of a 7.7 MW earthquake in Gujarat, India, on the health stock of children who were in utero or below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311572
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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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
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270563
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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
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348286
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Gender gaps in education
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130053