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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Gungor, Nil D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111786
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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators
Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2006-PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational achievement for Italian students enrolled at the fourth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421988
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Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland
Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
We investigate the size-related features of the production function of Polish primary schools. The interplay of small schools ineffectiveness and of organizational and social difficulties appearing in large schools implies that the relationship between school size and student achievement is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836355
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Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools in six countries. A reanalysis of three PISA data sets
Dronkers, J; Avram, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In international comparative studies on academic achievement, the distinction between private government-dependent schools and private-independent schools has been proven particularly important for understanding the differences in the effectiveness of the private and public school sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541486
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Educational Achievement of Immigrant Children in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
Levels, Mark; Dronkers, Jaap Dronkers; Kraaykamp, Gerbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries and immigrant communities can explain differences in the educational achievement of immigrant children. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we performed analyses on the mathematical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529208
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland
Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
based on gender, race and caste. These roles of social sector development have catapulted it to centre-stage of research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth: the Case of Turkey
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In order to test the existence of Thirlwall’s law for Turkey during the period of 1980-2008, bounds test approach to … cointegration is applied. The empirical results suggest that Thirlwall’s law holds for Turkey. This study also suggests some policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259089
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Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from a Major Emerging Market Economy
Bülent, Köksal; Cüneyt, Orman; Arif, Oduncu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
emerging market economy, Turkey. We study both statistical and economic significance of four types of leverage factors: Firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259490
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Features that influence the exit decision from the private pension system in Turkey
Kayam, Saime S.; Parkın, Mehmet Koray; Çeliktopuz, Merih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
developed as an alternative and/or as a complement to the public systems. In Turkey, the Private Pension System was given a head …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259617