The literature on adaptive learning suggests that it can provide significant improvements to the educational process and numerous studies have found a necessity for personalised learning, which is one of the strong suits of adaptive learning. Adaptive learning platforms require that content be...

The education and application of skills in it is an essential prerequisite for the growth and development of each national economy in the future. Investing in education and skills development are essential incentive for raising the growth and competitiveness of each country and its participation...

The labor market effects of remittances have long been examined in the empirical literature. To date, the results have been mixed: some authors observe a negative association between remittances and unemployment while others report that remittances increase unemployment. This paper empirically...

This paper presents an extension of Lucas' model of endogenous growth with human capital, showing some linkages with financial intermediation. The model offered in this paper does not imply a univocal relationship between the rates of inflation and economic growth, but it bears an explicit...

Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...

Influenza imposes substantial costs worldwide in terms of human lives and productivity losses. Vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce these costs for firms and public health institutions, but low take-up rates, particularly of working adults, and vaccination unintendingly causing...

Some middle-income economies, many of which Latin American, have not achieved to make the transition into high-income status for long years and are allegedly trapped in middle-income status. While there is considerable consensus on the proximate causes of this phenomenon, we present a global...

Media markets recently have been identified as multisided markets. The application of the theory of multisided markets provides a better understanding of such markets. It enriched the hitherto economic approach and led to new insights and perspectives especially for the antitrust authorities...