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Education and criminal behavior: Insights from an expansion of upper secondary school

Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline King Barnard - 2015

We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education … prolonged and more general education lead to a reduction in property crime, but no significant decrease in violent crime. The …

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Theory-based evaluation of the curriculum Lgr 11a

Wahlström, Ninni; Sundberg, Daniel - 2015

This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to generate new knowledge concerning the influences of...

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Be smart, live long: The relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality

Öhman, Mattias - 2015

and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no …

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Arm-wrestling in the classroom: The non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers

Lichand, Guilherme; Wolf, Sharon - 2020

Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should ameliorate those problems, mobilizing parents to do so often leads to small or even negative effects on learning outcomes. This paper provides causal evidence that this might result...

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The digital revolution: Lights and shadows: Lecture delivered at Fundación Ramón Areces

Serrano, Roberto - 2019

The digital revolution has brought about a wave of technological optimism, sustained by all the things technology does for us in our every day lives. This is in principle good, but it has a dark side, as the poor use of the new technologies may lead us to become lazier and to replace or strain...

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The effects of day care on health during childhood: Evidence by age

Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Siflinger, Bettina - 2020

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral problems and mental health as well as on various aspects of physical health, at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of comprehensive individual-level out-patient and inpatient health care register data from...

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Covid-19 e didattica a distanza.Il caso Basilicata, una regione a rischio digital divide

De Filippo, Marcella; Percoco, Annalisa; Voce, Angela - 2020

schools to the suspension of lessons in order to guarantee students' right to education. The working paper explains what DAD … digitization of the Italian school; it then explores digital education in Lucanian schools through the analysis of statistical … economic development. Ensuring quality, fair and inclusive education is the fourth goal of the UN Agenda 2030 and is a …

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Changes in the Recruitment and Education of the Power Elites in Twentieth Century Western Democracies

Brezis, Elise S.; Crouzet, François - 2002

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment and training of elites and economic development. We show that there was a key shift at the turn of the nineteenth century in the way the Western world trained...

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Municipalities as Educational Producers - An Efficiency Approach

Waldo, Staffan - 2001

This paper studies efficiency in the provision of public education by local authorities using Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA). Viewing education as a multilevel production process the models control for differences at other levels. Most …

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Efficiency in Public Education

Waldo, Staffan - 2002

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the influence on efficiency in public education from teacher characteristics … the efficiency in public education but that the teacher characteristics do not significantly explain any efficiency …

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