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The Impact of Schooling on the Timing of Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from a Change in Compulsory Schooling Law

Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Koç, İsmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the timing of marriage and early fertility using the 2003 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey and duration analysis methodology. The source of exogenous variation in schooling is the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey in 1997. The...

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Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

TANSEL, AYSIT - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Centers (SEC). Further, we aim to understand the distribution of the SECs and of the secondary schools across the provinces of … the secondary schools over time are described and compared. The provincial distribution of the SECs, secondary schools and … spatial equity issues. The distribution of high school age population that attend secondary schools and the distribution of …

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Does private tutoring increase students’ academic performance? Evidence from Turkey

Berberoglu, Giray; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three different kinds of tutoring. They then describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private...

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Adult Education in Turkey: Stylized Facts, Determinants and Further Issues

Dinçer, N. Nergiz; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on individuals engaging in adult education using the Adult Education Survey (AES) conducted by TurkStat for the first time. This way we provide the first evidence on the determinants of participation in adult education in a developing country, Turkey. Our...

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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Gungor, Nil D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...

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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...

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Private Tutoring and the Question of Equitable Opportunities in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The nature of the private tutoring and its relation to the two national selection examinations in...

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Skill Acquisition in the Informal Economy and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Emerging Economies

Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Informal jobs offer skill acquisition opportunities that may facilitate a future switch to formal employment for young workers. In this sense, informal training on the job may be a viable alternative to formal schooling in an economy with a large and diverse informal sector. In this paper, I...

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