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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
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academic outcomes or skills. Treated students increased their participation in businesses by 5 percentage points, or 17% of the … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools …
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Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intendedeffects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …
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the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees …
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foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …
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opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students … that the reform resulted in a decline in the number of subjects taken by minority students at the school exit test. There … was also a notable shift in the take-up of particular subjects, with fewer exams taken by minority students in more …
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volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …
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restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master … degree. We estimate probit models with two simultaneous equations accounting for part-time working while studying and for …
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