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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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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/10013167978
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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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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120
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Family Shocks and Academic Achievement
Hull, Marie C. - 2015
Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307411
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Educação e o rendimento dos ricos no Brasil
Medeiros, Marcelo; Galvão, Juliana Castro - 2015
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372144
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children - how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329036
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014
high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343330
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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559628