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This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
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Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …
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There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this … paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of … the foreign-born, differences in preschool enrollment are analyzed by country of origin. Among the U.S.-born children of …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection (amongst other things) resulting in an increase in the...
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Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …
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where the probability of children's school participation varies with respect to a non‐economic factor – how the community …
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Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where children are a source of old age transfers. The … amount of old age transfers made by children as adults is influenced both by their schooling and by parental religiosity …. Parents also derive utility from educating a proportion of their children in madrasahs in a way that reflects their own …
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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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Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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