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of education on corruption to depend on the capacities of civil society to oversee government officials. If those … capacities are well developed, education decreases corruption, whereas it may lead to higher corruption if civil monitoring is … low. We find empirical evidence to support this result for secondary and higher education. Furthermore we investigate the …
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Students´ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above...
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-sectional character of most available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors like culture. This chapter …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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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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this matter, to train individuals able to keep balance between national values and globalized truth is education. Gaining … education. The study of Azerbaijan-Turkey Private High Schools (ATPHS) that have an important place in national educational … national culture and values is a necessary experience. Our goal in this study is to reach the notions that the students …
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electoral knowledge (self-reports, behavioral, and actual voting measures). These data were purposely collected around the time …
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-sectional character of most available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors like culture. This chapter … growth. -- Human capital ; cognitive skills ; international student achievement tests ; education production function …
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-sectional character of most available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors like culture. This chapter … growth. -- human capital ; cognitive skills ; international student achievement tests ; education production function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966504
Students around the world are going to school but are not learning – an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the world's population from 2000 to...
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