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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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education in schools and universities to noninstitutional forms of learning such as home study. The dynamic effects of shifts in … education policy as well as their welfare implications are also calculated in the paper. …
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This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries. Based on secondary data and primary information from the Indian and Japanese IT industry, the study presents a...
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qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246684
education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a … country after graduation, incentivises the host country to improve its education quality. A higher education quality in turn …
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by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
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To our knowledge, this paper provides the first study evaluating the effects of higher education for adults on the … education in 1992–1993. Our sample is aged 42–55 at the time of enrollment and thus aged 60–73 in 2010. We find that higher … education increases labor market survival rates when aged 61–66 by about 5 percentage points. The estimates represent relatively …
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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