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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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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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). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
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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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exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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education. The document begins with a review of the theoretical background since the appearance of human capital theory proposed … by Becker (1964), which made way to the emergence of the Economics of Education in the mid-twentieth century. The other … characteristics that influence the demand for post-compulsory education, because it is this demand for education where the person or …
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the first period of life to the next and, along with education, enhances an individual's labor productivity. Poorer …
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Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance in early grades. In this paper, we explore the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the...
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Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance in early grades. In this paper, we explore the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993933