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Raising skills in Portugal
Araújo, Sónia - 2017
Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …
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Can the university save Europe?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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The education-innovation gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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Rise to the challenge or not give a damn : differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests
Attali, Yigal; Neeman, Zvika; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE that...
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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41
Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...
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Talking about the pigou paradox : socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
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Within-school spillover effects of foreclosures and student mobility on student academic performance
Bradbury, Katharine L.; Burke, Mary A.; Triest, Robert K. - 2015 - This version: July 25, 2014
Aside from effects on nearby property values, research is sparse on how foreclosures may generate negative externalities. Employing a unique dataset that matches individual student records from Boston Public Schools - including test scores, demographics, home address moves, and school changes -...
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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