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Africa's Skill Tragedy : Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017697
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086036
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017
This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964049
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Autor, David H. - 2016
Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...
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Unravelling knowledge creation and management in educational organisations : barriers and enablers
Rodríguez-Gómez, David; Gairín, Joaquín - In: Knowledge management research & practice : KMRP 13 (2015) 2, pp. 149-159
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Organizational knowledge and collaborative human resource practices as determinants of innovation
Nieves, Julia; Quintana, Agustín; Osorio, Javier - In: Knowledge management research & practice : KMRP 14 (2016) 3, pp. 237-245
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Innovation and the evolution of industries
Malerba, Franco - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 16 (2006) 1/2, pp. 3-23
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The global diffusion of ideas
Buera, Francisco; Oberfield, Ezra - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431029
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Knowledge creation and competitive advantage in turbulent environments : a process model of organizational learning
Salmador, María P.; Florin, Juan M. - In: Knowledge management research & practice : KMRP 11 (2013) 4, pp. 374-388
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Knowledge characteristics and the dynamics of technological alliances in pharmaceuticals : empirical evidence from Europe, US and Japan
Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco; Saviotti, Pier Paolo - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 24 (2014) 3, pp. 587-622
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