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Social Trust and the Growth of Schooling
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2007
The paper develops a simple model to exemplify how social trust might affect the growth of schooling through lowering transaction costs associated with employing educated individuals. In a sample of 52 countries, the paper thereafter provides empirical evidence that trust has led to faster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729874
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Life Expectancy and Schooling : New Insights from Cross-Country Data
Hazan, Moshe - 2011
I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177989
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003291728
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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Private or public school advantage? : evidence from 40 countries using PISA 2012-Mathematics
Sakellariou, Christos N. - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 29, pp. 2875-2892
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Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2021
This paper investigates whether at the interaction between family background and school tracking affects human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317403
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2012
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666513
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517433
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118533