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Subject: The education in mathematics, its failure and costs, and how to redesign this market. The political economy of … mathematics education. Method: We do not require statistics to show that mathematics education fails but can look at the math … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life …
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The effect of education on wages has been a widely explored topic. This paper will contribute to the existing … literature by studying the causal effect of education on wages in China, a context which has been far less studied. China …'s compulsory education laws and minimum age labor laws provide potentially exogenous changes in educational attainment. The first …
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This paper documents the changes in the ability distribution of individuals entering the teaching profession among individuals born between 1957-1964 and 1980-1984. This is done using the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a constructed Armed Force Qualifying...
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While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...
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consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …
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The present paper explores trends in privatization of school education in Andhra Pradesh and regional variations and …
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The present study explores the historical sources of educational deprivation of children in Telangana region of the Andhra Pradesh during its pre-independence period. Telangana was part of Nizam’s Hyderabad state prior to independence and later independent Hyderbad state until it was unified...
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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Using household survey data for Albania, this study compare decision-making about human capital investment in remittance-receiving households and non-remittance-receiving households. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to capture the effects of remittances. The crucial assumption in the...
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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