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Higher education in Kazakhstan 2017
OECD - 2017
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Higher Education in Kazakhstan 2017
OECD - 2017
the benefit of society. Kazakhstan’s higher education system has made progress over the past ten years. However, there is … research and innovation. In examining the higher education system in Kazakhstan, this report builds on a 2007 joint OECD …/World Bank review: Reviews of National Policies for Education: Higher Education in Kazakhstan 2007. Each chapter presents an …
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Education in OECD developing countries : trends and perspectives
Doussis, Constantine; Naturkrejt, Jacques - 1974
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000323159
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Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status
Taubman, Paul J. - 1980
In this paper we use data from the Retirement History Survey (RHS) to examine the relationship of some sociodemographic and economic variables to morbidity and mortality. Since the RHS is a longitudinal survey, we are able to study current health conditioned on prior health as well as the more...
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Education and Self-Selection
Willis, Robert J. - 1978
A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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Education : Consumption or Production
Lazear, Edward P. - 1975
It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase in wealth will produce an increase in the amount of schooling purchased. Increased incomes are associated with higher schooling attainment as the simple result of an income...
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Akyol, Ş. Pelin - 2020
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and...
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Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education
2010
Today’s global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping indicators of progress. However, we understand...
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Does Homework Perpetuate Inequities in Education?
2014
While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged schools tend to spend more time doing homework....
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Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia K. - 2009
Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based on research, both funded and unfunded. Some worry that faculty devoting more time to research harms teaching and thus harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics...
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