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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131034
began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or …
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predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future … under-enroll their children. …
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As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants … migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …
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Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254359
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher earnings, even for locals with relatively little...
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Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...
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