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use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented … trends in international migration of students, we develop a small theoretical model allowing to identify the various factors … associated to the attraction of migrants as well as the costs of moving abroad. Using new data capturing the number of students …
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. When only skilled workers are mobile, there is a sub-optimal shift from taxes to fees and the number of students is too low …. When also students can migrate, there is a countervailing force such that maintaining the optimal financial mix becomes …
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Student achievement has been identified as important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between redistributive government activities and investment in human capital measured by student performance in international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science...
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inference for the parameters of interest. The data are collected on students from Cameroon, using a new snowball sampling … complete a Master's degree doubles the odds of migration, there is little evidence of gender preference, students migrants are …
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effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial … shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation …
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We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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to this online option substantially increases overall enrollment in formal education, expanding the pool of students …
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outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs … and Hindi test scores by 0.59σ and 0.36σ respectively. We find similar absolute test score gains for all students, but the … relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control group was close …
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An influential body of psychological and anthropological theories holds that societies exhibit heterogeneous cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce cooperative behavior. According to some of these theories, entire...
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