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Prioritarianism in Education
Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261023
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Moral Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity in people’s moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241312
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Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082166
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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity
Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290779
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Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System
Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...
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Public Education Expenditure, Growth and Welfare
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - 2021
In this paper we study the quantitative macroeconomic effects of public education spending in USA for the post … education spending is justified by externalities in human capital. Our base calibration, based on moderate sized human capital … externalities, suggests that public spending on education is both growth and welfare promoting. However, given that public education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316996
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Skill Formation, Temporary Disadvantage and Elite Education
Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2021
show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This … education can increase expected life-time welfare for disadvantaged students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315204
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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries
Bassi, Marina; Dinarte, Lelys; Ferreyra, Maria Marta; … - 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education … also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261687
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The Global Effects of COVID-19-Induced Uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2020
We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world … outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14% …
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