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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital … of various skill dimensions for success in the labor market. This paper examines the returns to cognitive, personality … their labor market relevance. A synthesis and integration of the evidence on the relationship between multidimensional …
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income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments. Data on study efforts are derived from an...
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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