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The view that the returns to public educational investments are highest for early childhood interventions stems primarily from several influential randomized trials - Abecedarian, Perry, and the Early Training Project - that point to super-normal returns to preschool interventions. This paper...
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Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented debate on globalisation. Attention has focused on the origin and main … features of globalisation and its potential impact on world economic, political and social order. This research and policy … debate is understandable, as the pace and consequences of globalisation have implications for every individual, community or …
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This paper consits of two parts .. First part is a Static model..and models a globalised economy and observes the effects of sense of security between nations and the willingness of people to develop and cooperate.the Second part considers the world as a set of regions specialising in production...
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This paper describes a new method for assigning letter grades to students based on their raw scores, which I call Multi-Curve Grading (MCG). The intuition behind the method is that a class can be composed of several different subgroups, each of which should be assigned a different grade. In...
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Previous studies about the academic publishing process consider the publication delay as starting from the submission to the publishing journal. This ignores the potential delay caused by rejections received from previous journals. Knowing how many times papers are submitted prior to publication...
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A woman may choose to become more educated, partly because she wishes to emulate those around her. A behavioral model suggests that she is less likely to lose her baby than the less educated by flouting basic rules of health. Estimates of a three-equation model suggest that low-weight births are...
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Dada la importancia que la satisfacción y retención de los alumnos está adquiriendo últimamente para la supervivencia de las instituciones de enseñanza universitaria, varios investigadores han intentado encontrar formas fiables de medir esa satisfacción. Este artículo presenta una...
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Facing a growing competitive environment, higher education institutions have increased dramatically the competition for recruiting and retaining students providing a high quality service as a solution to compete. Frequently, researchers who have studied the service quality and client...
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The new millennium economics has evolved out of neoclassical economics over the last hundred years. The pace of change … has increased over time and in the first half of the 21st century, the economics profession will change as much, or more … economics and the structure of higher education generally. This paper therefore argued that the prospects of the economics …
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This work is focused on identifying the relationship an economic system and its policies have with the environment. The biosphere is chosen in particular as object of analysis but this can be extended by means of an ecosystem recursive properties. The common factor involved in the relationship...
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