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Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322618
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When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change: schools allow children from different socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497866
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852
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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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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269276
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497980
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Well-Being throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Gendered Effects of Daycare and School Closures
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2024
overview of the existing literature and carry out empirical analysis aimed at addressing certain gaps in the knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533871