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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
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Education platform for more cooperation among schools
Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 158-159
The living situation of the elderly population in Europe is gaining importance due to demographic change. In many European countries, women receive substantially lower pensions than men; gender pension gaps among pensioners can be up to 69 percent. When taking elderly people without a pension...
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Class size: does it matter for student achivement? : smaller classes are often associated with increased achievement, but the evidence is far from universal
Jepsen, Christopher - 2015
which have focused on elementary schools in the US and Europe. While the general finding is that smaller classes are …
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Viele Kinder von Geflüchteten besuchen eine Kita oder Grundschule : Nachholbedarf bei den unter Dreijährigen und der Sprachförderung von Schulkindern
Gambaro, Ludovica; Liebau, Elisabeth; Peter, Frauke; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 84 (2017) 19, pp. 379-386
Der Besuch einer Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita) oder einer Grundschule stellt für Kinder mit Fluchthintergrund einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Integration und Teilhabe an der deutschen Gesellschaft dar. Im Kontext des Zuzugs von mehr als 890 000 Schutzsuchenden im Jahr 2015 untersucht dieser...
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Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty : national survey of children's health
Assari, Shervin - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
systemically smaller for Black compared to White families. One hypothesis is that due to the existing structural racism that … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial …
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Secondary education and international labor mobility : evidence from the natural experiment in the Philippines
Sakai, Yoko; Masuda, Kazuya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-22
International labor mobility is a key factor for a well-functioning labor market. Although educational attainment is known to affect regional labor mobility within a country, evidence of a relationship between schooling and international labor mobility is limited, particularly in developing...
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Noise or news? : learning about the content of test-based school achievement measures
Javdani, Mohsen - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1417-1453
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Broadband in school : impact on student performance
Belo, Rodrigo; Ferreira, Pedro; Telang, Rahul - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 265-282
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Secondary schools and teenage childbearing : evidence from the school expansion in Brazilian municipalities
Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 35 (2021) 4, pp. 1019-1037
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