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Non-cognitive skills are important predictors of success on the labour market and in many areas of economic and social life. This paper explores the current literature on the economics of non-cognitive skill formation and the most important explanatory factors behind the recent boost of the...
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children provide the greatest yields. Although there are significant differences in the perception of the individual's freedom …
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Non-cognitive skills are important predictors of success on the labour market and in many areas of economic and social life. This paper explores the current literature on the economics of non-cognitive skill formation and the most important explanatory factors behind the recent boost of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714262
children provide the greatest yields. Although there are significant differences in the perception of the individual's freedom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011009
The starting point of this paper is a widely shared fundamental preference according to which Hungary should follow a fast, sustainable development path and catch up with the developed world in the foreseeable future. Questions raised in this paper are related to the instrumental preferences....
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The starting point of this paper is a widely shared fundamental preference according to which Hungary should follow a fast, sustainable development path and catch up with the developed world in the foreseeable future. Questions raised in this paper are related to the instrumental preferences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825288
children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of …
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children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
from those of the vocational school reform, which also took effect in 2013. The analysis uses diff-in-diff and value added … school or in 6- or 8-year-long academic secondary school tracks. Even in grade 10, instead of an average centralization … '17. Based on a model, however, which tries to separate the effects of centralisation and the vocational school reform, it …
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educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or … 10th grade. These report cards publicize information about the students' mathematical and reading literacy skills, as … well as statistics about the school and about the parents. This paper summarizes the most important theoretical and …
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