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Cross-country evidence on the impact of decentralisation and school autonomy on educational performance
Lastra-Anadón, Carlos Xabel - 2019
well as a measure of school autonomy (using six waves of PISA). These measures are related to educational outcomes …. School autonomy is also positively related with educational outcomes, strengthening the estimated effects of administrative …
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs
Entorf, Horst - 2015
As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women
Dave, Dhaval M.; Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
high school drop-out of teenage girls, both to improve on past research on this issue and to explore compositional changes … %. It also appears to have decreased the probability of high school enrollment on the same order of magnitude. These results …
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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Enhancing Incentives to Improve Performance in the Education System in France
O'Brien, Paul - 2007
The French education system has a mixed record. A generally very successful pre-school and primary school level …
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Decentralization education system and its effects on teachers performance
Shabbir, Sadia; Ahmed, Ishtiaq; Imran, Muhammad - In: Journal of investment and management : JIM 6 (2017) 3, pp. 75-78
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How decentralised are education systems, and what does it mean for schools?
OECD - 2018
School autonomy is popular but also complex and sometimes contentious. Many education systems have increased schools …, increased autonomy has led to greater pressure on schools and local stakeholders. To be successful, school autonomy needs to be … built on a set of key ingredients: a strong national framework and a clear strategic vision, well-adapted school head and …
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