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This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time …
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associated not only with higher economic prosperity, but also with better education. We find that Protestants' higher literacy …
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This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …
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part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate …) Investments in education of high- and low-ability parents must be subsidized, (ii) direct child subsidies to one or both parent … types can be negative; i.e., they can be taxes, (iii) net subsidies to children (direct child subsidies plus education …
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country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education … experience. We find that both government expenditures in education and attendance to early child care are associated with better …
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education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … education would require large imperfections in these markets to be more welfare improving than distributional policies …
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and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate …, climate policy reduces education investments, on which human capital is built. However, a policy mix combining climate and … education targets shows that education and climate goals can be coupled incurring in small additional economic penalties …
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Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the …-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to … industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in …
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the first place. However, it induces the host country to improve its education quality, as a larger share of the generated … benefits accrue in this host country. A higher education quality raises in turn the human capital of the returning students. As …
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