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Current Changes in Education : A Global Perspective

Ghazanfar, Munir - 2005

Numerous changes have recently taken place in the domain of higher education. Most of these changes have led to intense debate between forces pushing them and those resisting them. In Pakistan too, there is currently a passionate and ongoing discussion between the Higher Education Commission,...

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Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2021

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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Impact of duration of primary education on school outcomes : a cross-country analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013

Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...

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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Woessmann, Ludger; Fuchs, Thomas - 2021

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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Some remarks on the effectiveness of primary education interventions

Silva, Olmo - 2009

In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can effectively improve the quality of primary schooling, as measured by pupil test-based achievements. Particular attention is devoted to the experience of England, a country which...

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Imagining Education : Educational Policy and the Labor Earnings Distribution

Amador, Diego - 2009

This paper simulates, within a partial equilibrium framework, the scenarios resulting form the implementation of several educational policies. Then, policies are compared according to their hypothetical results in terms of labor earnings inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient. Results...

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

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Can the Global Corporate Innovation Investment Model Serve as a Template for Regional Economic Innovation?

Vass, Laurie Thomas - 2014

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.In their research on the innovation management practices of large corporations, A. Y … going about their task of outsourcing American technological innovation. In their article, quot;Why Are Companies Offshoring …

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Global challenges in the economics of education : basic skills, natural disasters, and civic engagement

Gust, Sarah - 2025

Sarah Gust führte diese Studie während ihrer Tätigkeit am ifo Institut durch. Die Studie wurde im September 2024 abgeschlossen und als Dissertation an der Volkswirtschaftlichen Fakultät der LMU München angenommen. Sie besteht aus drei eigenständigen empirischen Essays, die...

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