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Delayed graduation and university dropout: A review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020

-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged …

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Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...

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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020

We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country’s required upper...

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Unintended Consequences of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2023

The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in secondary schools to evaluate its effect on student...

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Investing in human capital to boost growth!

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

The Italian economy performs well below the EU average. The reason is a dramatic and persistent low rate of investment, always invoked but never supported by national and supra-national institutions. However, investment to increase the quantity and quality of human capital is key to boost...

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Convergence in total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2023

This paper examines convergence patterns in total greenhouse gas emissions across 114 countries from 1990 to 2019 … broaden the study. We use the club convergence test to contrast the null hypothesis of convergence for a pool of data and … identify subgroups of convergence. The results reveal different clubs according to the air pollutant considered, indicating the …

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Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment: Evidence from School Reform in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the...

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Hukou status and children's education in China

Sun, Yue; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998....

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Arsenic Exposure and School Participation in Cambodia

Saing, Chan Hang; Cannonier, Colin - 2017

We exploit the exogenous variations of arsenic contamination across regions in Cambodia and apply two-period difference-in-differences (DID) to examine the impact of arsenic-contaminated groundwater on school participation among children aged 5-17. We find that conditional on the DID assumption,...

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