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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017
Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613140
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The Total Return to Higher Education : Is There Underinvestment For Economic Growth and Development?
McMahon, Walter W. - 2019
The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers a new scholarly contribution where firm and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869715
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Human Capital Spending, Inequality, and Growth in Middle-Income Asia
Abrigo, Michael R.M. - 2018
Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917816
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Paradoxes and Contradictions in the Growth of Engineering Education in India : Challenges and Prospects
Tilak, Jandhyala BG - 2021
Higher education in India has expanded remarkably during the post-independence period, and more impressively during the last three to four decades, emerging as the second largest system in the world after China. However, the growth has not been even and, being unplanned, unregulated and market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220161
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Underinvestment and Slow Growth : PWBM Concedes Flaws
Simkovic, Michael - 2021
The U.S. economy is growing more slowly than it can and should be growing because it does not invest enough in infrastructure, science, and education. There is an important procedural obstacle to funding public investments — a process of scoring the economic effect of legislation. This process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249451
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Human capital spending, inequality, and growth in middle-income Asia
Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Lee, Sang-hyop; Park, Donghyun - 2017
Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756551
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Inclusive Growth Through Creation of Human and Social Capital
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271694
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Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity
Maravalle, Alessandro - 2023
formal job. This requires a more targeted support to students with learning gaps, improving teachers’ selection and training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014324643
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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey
Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016
and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522665
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Math skill growth and learning differences in higher education : can lower-skilled students catch up?
Büchele, Stefan; Marten, Carina - 2022
Studies determining students' success in higher education mostly rely on students' predetermined baseline variables … development of these differences over time. Whether ex-ante lower-skilled students can catch up or higher-skilled students may … expand their initial lead remains unclear. We investigate the students' learning growth in a business math course and analyze …
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