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This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …
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to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …
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education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs. …
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Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
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This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a lifecycle simulation approach, I account for ability/selection bias and the substantial...
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In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We … have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …
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