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impact teachers unions have on American education. To give structure to that effort, this article analyses the unions …
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, expenditure on education and training are recorded as human capital formation. This includes not only the expenditure on primary …, secondary and tertiary education, but also expenditure on training and courses by employers and the earnings foregone by … part of final consumption expenditure. The satellite shows more comprehensively than OECD Education at a Glance who pays …
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Evidence-based education policy needs comprehensive data. Education economists of the Verein für Socialpolitik call for … the implementation of a longitudinal education register in Germany to understand the complex interrelationships of … education systems. The education register should cover all levels of formal education and include data on student performance in …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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