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between production and political activities. Our results could also reflect a link between education, “grievance”, and … between schooling and economic conditions matters too at the country level: Rising education levels coupled with macroeconomic …
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of political activity identied in the literature, namely education, and its interaction with economic circumstances …. Using a combination of individual-level micro data and cross-country macro data, we highlight how rising levels of education …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education …-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on …-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229832
of education on corruption to depend on the capacities of civil society to oversee government officials. If those … capacities are well developed, education decreases corruption, whereas it may lead to higher corruption if civil monitoring is … low. We find empirical evidence to support this result for secondary and higher education. Furthermore we investigate the …
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could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …
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This paper surveys the empirical and theoretical link between education and growth in the growth process of Asian … countries. Particular attention is paid to the link between education and productivity, and to models that characterize key … education. …
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). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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