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The Industry and Policy Context for Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: Market Analysis, Future Prospects and Key Challenges in Videogames, Serious Games and Gamification.
Stewart, James; Misuraca, Gianluca - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
of sectors. These actors are trying to develop knowledge, products, services and a market for the use of digital games … them to support innovation and uptake of effective digital game-based approaches to empowerment and social inclusion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169843
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The Potential of Digital Games for Empowerment and Social Inclusion of Groups at Risk of Social and Economic Exclusion: Evidence and Opportunity for Policy
Stewart, James; Bleumers, Lizzy; Centeno - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
service improvement, and employment and growth, but significant activity is still required in research, innovation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169907
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266618
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Measuring progress in reading achievement between primary and secondary school across countries
Jakubowski, Maciej; Pokropek, Artur - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011
This paper discusses a method to compare progress in reading achievement from primary to secondary school across countries. The method is similar to value-added models that take into account intake levels when comparing student progress in different schools. Value-added models are preferred over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366334
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Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371890
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Human Capital and Productivity in British Columbia
Murray, Alexander; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011
This report provides an assessment of human capital development in British Columbia. The province's performance is above average according to the majority of the indicators we analyze, relative to both the rest of Canada and other OECD countries. However, this does not mean that there is no room...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292078
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Great expectations, but how to achieve them? Explaining patterns of inequality in childcare use across 31 developed countries
Van Lancker, Wim; Ghysels, Joris - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2013
Childcare services are increasingly regarded as a major policy lever to mitigate social inequalities. Such services are believed to be effective in reducing poverty and increasing employment rates by allowing both parents to engage in paid employment, as well as to benefit the cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849696
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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.
CASTRO, Rui; COEN-PIRANI, Daniele - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2014
We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932–1972 cohorts using a calibrated model of investment in human capital with heterogeneous learning ability. The inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186227
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Resisting Education
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114515
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Lifetime inequality and redistribution
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Monica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2012
In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010606862