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Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Complex approaches for education in Brazil

Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016

Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are phenomena resulting from interactions between the heterogeneous agents that compose such systems. Given the complex nature of education systems, new approaches seem relevant,...

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Migration, remittances and educational outcomes: The case of Haiti

Bredl, Sebastian - 2009

Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly...

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Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates. A study of cousins and adoptees

Hægeland, Torbjørn; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; … - 2010

There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests, grade repetition and in educational attainment. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this association is weak. Within a rich census level data set for Norway, we...

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The legacy of Covid-19 in education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international literature...

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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - 2007

Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als „Ich-AG“ bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von...

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The value of skill training programs for self-employment, entrepreneurship and non-cognitive traits. Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Chakravarty, Shubha; Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Nikolov, … - 2017

Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we examine the short-run impacts of a vocational training program on self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal Employment Fund training program, which funds training...

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The innovative input mix. Assessing the importance of R&D and ICT investments for firm performance in manufacturing and services

Rybalka, Marina - 2015

Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … large unbalanced panel data set based on the innovation survey for Norway. Four different types of innovation and the number …

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Innovation and Job Creation in a Small Open Economy. Evidence from Norwegian Manufacturing Plants 1982-92

Klette, Tor Jakob; Førre, Svein Erik - 1995

, are concentrated in products which are technologically advanced and knowledge intensive. This paper examines the … relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job …

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