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This paper evaluates the implementation of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) K to 12 Adjustment Assistance … Program, established following the full implementation of the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 (RA 10533) in 2016, with … the Senior High School (SHS) rollout. This had far reaching implications for the education stakeholders affected …
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We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...
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Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers? hours are largely chosen at the worker?s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
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Bildungswesen herangezogen werden kann. …Recent articles of the public choice literature emphasize the socializing role of education in order to explain the … the more homogeneous the cultural background of agents, a centralized education system with a common curriculum might be …
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We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was … or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …
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In the last decade, several Latin American governments have implemented new teacher recruitment policies based on evaluations of candidates' competency and knowledge so as to raise the quality of their teachers and schools. Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to...
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The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics … more. This implies that the abolition of the 'two-tier' education system has reduced inequality among Higher Education …
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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …
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