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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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educational opportunities and on the level of student performance achieved in education systems. The study applies different waves … tracking and the structure of pre-primary education as important determinants for equality. The impact of market …-related structures in education systems on the equality of educational opportunities is evaluated in Chapter 5. Subsequently, Chapter 6 …
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, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of … migrant parents can affect families' time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly … assumed that preferences for different kinds of education inputs remain unchanged when household members migrate. Using survey …
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remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of … migrant parents can affect families' time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly … assumed that preferences for different kinds of education inputs remain unchanged when household members migrate. Using survey …
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Benchmarking is intended to help gauge where economies rank relative to others. However, historically educational benchmarking has often elected to use indicators based on their ease of availability, rather than a clear and defined link between inputs and learning outcomes. In this paper, we...
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School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show...
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The paper studies the impact of financial aid on long-term educational attainment and labor market outcomes in Colombia. In 2014, the government launched a large-scale and generous student loan program called "Ser Pilo Paga." It offered full tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of receiving financial aid for a cohort of students who enrolled at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in the year 2007/08, through a Propensity Score Matching approach. Using administrative data about these students for four years, we were able to evaluate the...
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Education is the basic requirement and the 'Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is … important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is … qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been …
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High-stakes testing pressures schools to raise test scores, but schools respond to pressure in different ways. Some responses produce real, broad increases in learning, but other responses merely inflate average scores by narrowing instruction around tested skills and narrowing testing to...
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