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Il existe des marges de manœuvre pour augmenter les ressources de l'éducation du supérieur tout en préservant une forme …'euros chaque année. Ce montant est voisin du montant actuellement consacré aux aides individuelles pour l'éducation du supérieur …
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One of the greatest success stories in our societies is that people are living longer, life expectancy at birth being now above 80 years. Whereas the lengthening of life opens huge opportunities for individuals if extra years are spent in prosperity and good health, it is however often regarded...
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reform higher education and research, with a view to bringing together universities, creating centres of excellence, research …
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The American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) assembled a group of researchers and policy makers in Germany and the United States to identify research and policy issues posed by the transformation we have come to call the new economy. This paper, which is the product of their...
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European Biotechnology companies and public policy-makers face to a number of crucial problems related to the development of Biotechnology in Europe : European industrial competitiveness, the relative under-exploitation of the European science base in Biotechnology, poor technology transfer...
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The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … by alternative explanations. One of them is that participation aims not to increase education quality but rather to …
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WWII in France. In order to identify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the small group of people … graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles) remained stable, while the rest of the system experienced tremendous … cohorts that received more education have a lower wage gap, relative to Grandes Ecoles. We show that such a large scale …
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argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the existence of diminishing returns to education that limit the extension …
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Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas … existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben …-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining between the parent and the child. We develop a three-period OLG …
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We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...
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