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Teenage Pregnancy in Mexico: Evolution and Consequences

Arceo-Gómez, Eva Olimpia; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the consequences of a teenage pregnancy event in the short- and long-run in Mexico. Using longitudinal and cross-section data, we match females who got pregnant and those that did not based on a propensity score. In the short-run, we find that a teenage pregnancy causes a decrease of...

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100 years of educational reforms in Europe: a contextual database

Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This report presents the macro data on educational reforms collected for the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The first and chore part provides an analytical overview of the educational reforms that may have affected the skill level of Europe’s elderly population....

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Consumption style among young adults toward their shopping behavior:an empirical study in Pakistan

Azam, Rehan; Muhammad, Danish; Syed Akbar, Suleman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The purpose of this study was to substantiate the consumption styles of adolescents as customer. The study was executed in Karachi, Pakistan by applying consumption style inventory scale. The data covered of 1,048 respondents who are young and educated mostly students, which belong to the...

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Child labour and school attendance: evidence from Bangladesh

Khanam, Rasheda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to understand better the determinants of child labour and schooling in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses data from a survey based in rural Bangladesh and considers the children aged 5-17 years living in rural households in...

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Can State Language Policies Distort Students’ Demand for Education?

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We exploit a recent natural experiment in Ukraine’s school system to study how stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language affect linguistic minority students’ demand for education. The reform obligated linguistic minority students to take a standardized school exit test in...

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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society

Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...

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MBA education: a must in a competitive Romanian business environment

Ilie, Livia; Horobet, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

by the end of transition, the EU membership and the globalization process. MBA programs represent, in our view, the key … experience. The Romanian market developed slowly since 1993, with three major players dominating it: the Romanian-Canadian MBA …, ASEBUSS Executive MBA and CODECS. These programs and the more recent entrants are facing legal recognition uncertainties and …

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Distribution of Demand for School Quality: Evidence from Quantile Regression

Wada, Roy; Herbert, Zahirovic-Herbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Our results show that high-income families place significantly higher value on academic achievement than low-income families. High-income families are also more likely to penalize house price for non-desirable non-academic school quality. This paper uses quantile regression to examine the...

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Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...

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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview

Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...

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