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Do Students Care About School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2007
School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives on educational policy in developing countries. Unique panel data on primary school age children in Egypt permit estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778157
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School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools
Card, David - 2010
The province of Ontario has two publicly funded school systems: secular schools (known as public schools) that are open to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered independently and receive equal funding per student. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758576
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How Much is Too Much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Social and Cognitive Development
Loeb, Susanna - 2009
Previous research has demonstrated that attending center care is associated with cognitive benefits for young children …
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The Lengthening of Childhood
Deming, David James; Dynarski, Susan M. - 2021
Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84%. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in kindergarten rather than first grade. This paper documents...
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The Competitive Effects of Online Education
Deming, David - 2016
We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...
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Funding Scientific Knowledge : Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
research - filling a selection gap and solving a disclosure problem - in fact both the selection choices of public funders and … their criteria for disclosure and commercialization shape the level and type of funding for research and the disclosures … in research. Our analysis reveals complex and unexpected relationships between public funding, private funding, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068134
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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2022
the emphasis on empiricism at the NBER. We explore how the NBER was an incubator of human capital research and the ways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014100574
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The State of Corporate Governance Research
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2011
and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research … governance project. Each of the papers represents state-of-the-art research in an important area of corporate governance research …
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Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?
Chinn, Menzie David - 2012
Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve currency? Unlike ten years ago, there now exists a credible competitor: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve...
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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention
Packalen, Mikko - 2014
Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more … established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very …
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