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considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several …
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attempt to explain this evolution. The rise can be explained by variables associated with education, while the fall appears to …. -- synthetic cohorts ; income distribution ; rates of return ; education …
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Die Studie untersucht für Deutschland, in welchem Ausmaß intellektuelle Fähigkeiten und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Eltern an ihre Kinder im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter weitergegeben werden. Auf Basis repräsentativer Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt sich, dass...
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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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higher education for individuals in Egypt in 2010. The results suggested that these externalities are negative and exist only … increase in governorate average higher education is associated with a 68% decrease in females’ hourly wage. This could be … explained by the fact that education degrees are simply used as a device to signal higher ability without raising productivity …
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This paper discusses the potential contribution of employing school effectiveness methodological approach within the ongoing research debate on school choice issues. Using the first approach, we estimate the effectiveness of a sample of Chilean schools after controlling by a baseline at the...
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The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years … who has a large proportion of health care performed by alternative producers are more economically efficient than other … efficiently. - economic efficiency in health care ; data envelopment analysis ; Tobit regression …
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In this paper we analyze the links between health status (measured by selfreported illness occurrence) and individuals … find that men, unmarried, young people, occupied, those who do not live alone and those with more than 5 years of education …, have a smaller probability of reporting a bad health status. We also find that the probability of reporting a bad health …
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We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …. This issue is explo red using matching methods, finding that a good health status increases the probability of being happy …
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