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Von einer frühen Förderung und Betreuung können Kinder und ihre Eltern profitieren. Wir gehen der Frage nach, ob diese Angebote von allen Familien genutzt werden und welche Unterschiede es im Hinblick auf die sozioökonomische Ressourcenausstattung von Familien gibt. Auf der Basis des...
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In this paper, we analyze the schooling alternatives of families that could face school closure. This article identifies, characterizes, and georeferences the institutions classified as low-performing by the SEP Law along with their closest alternatives. The findings indicate that a significant...
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This paper investigates the extent of operating cost inefficiencies in the public provision of American higher education. The analysis employs panel data on American research and doctoral granting universities spanning four academic years, 2005-06 through 2008-09. Translog cost frontiers are...
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This paper uses data envelopment analys is to investigate the extent to which universities in the United States have undergone productivity and efficiency changes, partly due to managerial performance, during the 2005-09 academic years. Using panel data for 133 research a nd doctoral...
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In the period 2000 - 2006, municipal or public schools reduced its enrollment in 186,000 students (13%) in Chile. Meanwhile, privately subsidized schools, receiving the same type of funding, increased their enrollment in 386,000 students (38%). In this paper we distinguish demand factors,...
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Higher education institutions are an essential, endogenous element of economic development and take part in resolving global issues. Their utilitarian role, however, may be greatly limited as a result of improper ways of financing science and didactics. The prevailing mechanism of financing...
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Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it … poverty and income inequality. This is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data …
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At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point averages falls by half between the students’ freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to reduce racial differences. However, this convergence...
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Research on social science graduates’ employment prospects reaches contradictor conclusions intensifying the scepticism on the value of these disciplines in the labour market. The paper examines two important labour market outcomes of these graduates, employment status and job-studies...
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This study applies the structure and operations of private universities' board to analyze the establishment of the structure and operating mechanism for the private universities boards as well as the relevance with school performance. The analysis of board forms shows that the numbers of...
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