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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs … growth and increase inequality. …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
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that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
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computer use for education and communication at home show a positive conditional relationship with student achievement. The …
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decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
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This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
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tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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