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Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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) classroom use in schools and (ii) home use by students. Theoretically, information and communications technology (ICT …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 …
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gender, ethnicity, age, and employment status in the Swedish rental market for apartments. Our results confirm the existence …
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, the gender gap is smaller in the Mosuo. Regressions show that socio-economic factors such as family size, family head …, education, age, and income also have significant effects on subject's risk choices. …
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willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …
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unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …
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Education is a main determinant of employment, but not in isolation. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT …) skills have become a key element to facilitate employment opportunities. The growth in female educational attainment and ICT … use is closing the gender divide and favouring female employment. We present evidence on this for the Spanish labour …
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pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion reflecting a large education premium for those with higher education …
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usually require competitiveness, competitiveness differences provide an explanation for gender gaps in wages and differences … Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
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