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The role of preschool in reducing inequality
Waldfogel, Jane - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Children from disadvantaged families have lower levels of school readiness when they enter school than do children from … implemented more recently in the US, find that the programs do improve outcomes for young children, particularly for those from …
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Do rising returns to education justify "helicopter" parenting?
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on …
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy?
Vignoles, Anna - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Can higher education reduce inequality in developing countries?
Shimeles, Abebe - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Developing countries often face two well-known structural problems: high youth unemployment and high inequality. In recent decades, policymakers have increased the share of government spending on education in developing countries to address both of these issues. The empirical literature offers...
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Do social interactions in the classroom improve academic attainment?
Telhaj, Shqiponja - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
The role of social interactions in modifying individual behavior is central to many fields of social science. In education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or labor market outcomes later in life. Indeed,...
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy?
Cherry, M. Gemma; Vignoles, Anna - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Do skills matter for wage inequality?
Broecke, Stijn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...
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Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) October, pp. 1-10
A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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