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Good teachers are the backbone of a successful education system. Yet, in developing countries, teachers' content knowledge is often inadequate. This study documents that primary school math teachers in the department of Moraz'an in El Salvador only master 47 percent of the curriculum they teach....
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We review a selection of the theoretical and empirical literature on human capital and growth that appear to provide the most relevant insights for policy development in the Canadian context. We first focus on the extension of the neo-classical growth model with the inclusion of human capital in...
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En este trabajo se estima el efecto de Fe y Alegría, una administración público-privada en educación en el Perú, sobre los rendimientos en matemáticas y comprensión lectora en alumnos de segundo de primaria, entre los años 2007 y 2012. La estrategia de identificación se basa en el...
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Con el propósito de promover su discusión en el marco de los Debates Presidenciales de 2014, Fedesarrollo lideró la elaboración de varios documentos con propuestas de política pública en áreas críticas para el desarrollo económico y social del país. Una prioridad fundamental en este...
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Mejorar la calidad de la educación pública constituye un pilar fundamental para la superación de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico. Con este propósito, en el año 2002 el Gobierno Nacional expidió el Estatuto de Profesionalización Docente mediante el cual se promueve la utilización...
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La calidad de la educación es uno de los principales determinantes del crecimiento económico y el desarrollo. El objetivo fundamental delpresente documento es evaluar si la doble jornada escolar tiene efectos negativos sobre la calidad de la educación en Colombia. Para estose estima el efecto...
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In 2013, the principle focus in the Russian education system was placed upon raising teaching personnel wages, because … these wages are linked to wages of the nursery-school teacher and teaching personnel of the extended education system … monitoring-based study showed that growth in wages had no significant effect on the teaching personnel's self-sentiment, most of …
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attainment, the impact of the increase in education on wages, and to explore how this varied across individuals. The results …
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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559620