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School Choice and Student Achievement. Evidence from Poland

Herbst, Mikolaj; Herczynski, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The impact of school choice on education quality is one of the most hotly contested issues in education economics. We … even becomes negative. Besides the influence on the average achievement in the city, the increased school choice leads to …

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Where has all the education gone in Sub-Saharan Africa? Employment and other outcomes among secondary school and university leavers

Al-Samarrai, Samer; Bennell, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Anecdotal evidence and generalisations abound concerning the employment outcomes of secondary school and university … profiles of representative samples of secondary school leavers and university graduates in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and … challenges of educating and subsequently utilising secondary school leavers and university graduates in an efficient and …

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Achieving education for all: How much does money matter?

Al-Samarrai, Samer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper explores the extent to which differences in the resources allocated to education explain differences in educational access and performance across countries. Cross-country regression analysis shows that the link between educational access and performance and public education...

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The Long-run Effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Bruhns, Ramona - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child labor. Human capital, which is built up through formal education and parental child-rearing, is the only input in production. Two aspects are central to the analysis: First, a...

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Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland

Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

between school size and student achievement is non-linear, with the optimal size crucially dependent on the social …

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The Logistics Education In The Universities of Turkey

Baki, Birdoğan; Tanyaş, Mehmet; Özkök, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Logistics is one of the most important compenents in achieving the success for the firms in competition in the present day and that the employment of the qualified people who graduated from universities by firms in this field is crucial. For this reason, that the promising logistics managers...

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Knowledge and Technology – Implications for a strategic Design – Croatian Case

Lamza - Maronić, Maja; Glavaš, Jerko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Globalization and internationalization processes continuously increase the quantity of information. All the information is quickly and easily accessible, and the problem is no longer scarcity of information, but its surplus. Economists need to be active and creative in solving this new problem,...

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Efficiency and University Size: Discipline-wise Evidence from European Universities

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Daraio, Cinzia; Räty, Tarmo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Strategic management of universities must build the best possible relation between inputs and outputs. One relevant question, in this perspective, is whether the unit is making the best use of existing resources, or whether technical efficiency is in place. Here we address the question of...

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

high school, the median student today attends some college. In an environment with ability heterogeneity and positive … sorting between ability and school tenure, the expansion of education implies a decrease in the average ability of students … conditional on school attainment. Using a calibrated model of school choice under ability heterogeneity, we investigate the …

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