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Kleinere Klassen = bessere Leistungen?
Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 17, pp. 6-15
wie PISA, IGLU und TIMSS für die deutsche Schulpolitik lernen kann. Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Frage …
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Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum
von Weizsäcker, Robert K. (contributor) - 1998
Das Thema Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum hat Tradition. Während in den sechziger Jahren die Impulse direkt aus der … präsentiert wurden, unternehmen den Versuch, das bisweilen etwas eklektische Wechselspiel zwischen Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum … Einschätzung der Bedeutung des Faktors Bildung für gesamtwirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge heraus, sondern sie stellen die …
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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - 2003
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...
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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003
This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …
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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Siedler, Thomas - 2007
This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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Aspekty efektivnosti při volbě profese a školy: Přizpůsobují se pražské střední školy potřebám podniků?
Benáček, Vladimír - 2010
In this paper we study three crucial questions of economic decision-making: a) How are the people motivated in the choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with the criteria for building the human capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on...
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2004
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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