In developing countries, rising incomes, increased demand for more skilled labor, and government investments of considerable resources on building and equipping schools and paying teachers have contributed to global convergence in enrollment rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless,...

Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani public and private schools using dynamic panel methods that account for three key empirical challenges to widely used value-added models: imperfect...

In this article we assess the impact of public support for R&D activities on the educational mix of R&D employees in private companies. Data on tax incentives in support of R&D activities of companies in Belgium are matched with R&D survey data to investigate changes in the share of R&D...

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Ziel der Untersuchung ist die Entwicklung eines Konzepts für die Studienfinanzierung, das sich sowohl an den normativen Grundlagen wie an den allgemeinen Gestaltungsprinzipien der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft orientiert. Zunächst wird erläutert, welche Leistungen von einer wettbewerblichen...