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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959739
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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election
Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-quarters of the gaps in age-eight IQ and achievement would be eliminated by the early education program. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279253
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ИНСТИТУТЫ, РЕСУРСЫ И НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ИННОВАЦИОННАЯ СИСТЕМА ИЛИ ПОЧЕМУ НЕ ПОЛУЧАЕТСЯ ИННОВАЦИОННЫЙ СУП...
ВОЛЬЧИК ВЯЧЕСЛАВ ВИТАЛЬЕВИЧ.; … - In: Journal of Institutional Studies (Журнал … 6 (2014) 3, pp. 54-64
Формирование и функционирование национальной инновационной системы рассматривается через призму влияния институциональной среды и сопутствующих факторов,...
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Improving the Quality versus Increasing the Quantity of Schooling.
Behrman, J.R.; Ross, D.; Sabot, R.; Tropp, M. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292751
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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Educational Choice, Credit Constraints and Public Policy in an Overlapping Generations Framework.
Fender, J.; Wang, P. - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 1996
young. While education enhances productivity, it needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the possibility of default … credit rationing tends to discourage education and raise the real rate of interest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357619
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In brief: Urban schools: does money make a difference?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This research paper is motivated by a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution, educational inequality between those from high and low socio-economic groups and the question as to what role an increase in school resources has in changing all this. The issue about whether investing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549057
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Investing for Prosperity: Skills, Infrastructure and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Besley, Timothy; Browne, John; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
What institutions and policies are needed to sustain UK economic growth in the dynamic world economy of the twentyfirst century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural weaknesses in the economy, all rooted in a failure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604795
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The effectiveness of government expenditure on education and health care in the Caribbean
Craigwell, Roland; Bynoe, Danielle; Lowe, Shane - In: International Journal of Development Issues 11 (2012) April, pp. 4-18
education by evaluating the life expectancy and school enrolment rates of these countries. Design/methodology/approach – Using a … data set containing 19 Caribbean countries over the period 1995 to 2007 for health care and 1980 to 2009 for education, a … positive effect on health status, while spending on education has no appreciable influence on either primary or secondary …
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