Hohe Schulabbruchsquoten stellen in vielen Ländern ein großes Problem dar. Sie sind meist das Ergebnis eines schrittweisen Prozesses der Entfremdung der Schüler von der Schule, der durch unterschiedliche Faktoren, wie Motivationslosigkeit, schlechte Schulleistungen und straffälliges...

Within a model where the parents make the decisions relating to their children’s education, we show that skill dynamics normally results in a sub-optimal situation involving income per capita. This derives from an under-education trap that is endogenously generated. When sub-optimality is...

The World Health Report 2000 proposed three fundamental goals for health systems encompassing population health, health care finance and health systems responsiveness. Each of the goals incorporates both an efficiency and equity dimension. While inequalities in population health and health care...

Die Debatte über eine bundesweite Zusammenlegung von Haupt- und Realschule ist spätestens seit der Vorstellung des neuen „Bildungskonzeptes“ der CDU wieder angefacht worden. Durch die Integration beider Schularten zu einer Oberschule sollen vor allem der Ruf der Hauptschule als...

In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...

In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...

This paper probes into the growth and distributional consequences of four basic policy options emanating from the three sources of economic growth, namely, physical capital, human capital and technological progress, with the help of a computable general equilibrium model of India. The simulation...