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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction

Kroell, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2021

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...

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Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2007

endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …

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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view

Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …

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Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

A general conclusion of the youth job training programme (YJTP) evaluationliterature is that these programmes are more effective when completed. Yet,YJTPs suffer from substantial dropout problems. This paper studies the extent ofthe dropout phenomenon and under which circumstances dropout is...

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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas, Ammermüller; Hans, Heijke; Ludger, Wöszmann - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …

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Job-training programmes with low completion rates: The case of Projoven-Peru

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

Projoven is an ongoing Peruvian youth job-training programme started in 1996and conducted in successive waves or ‘public calls’. The programme has twophases of instruction: i) three months of classroom training, followed by ii) threemonths of on-the-job training internship. From 1997 to...

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