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of schooling (for all three levels, especially tertiary education), the quality of education measured through scores on …The paper focuses particularly on proving that education can lead to economic growth within five groups of EU Member … States. Our study reviews the human capital from its quantitative (years of study) and qualitative (education quality …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of … schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany … found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother …
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investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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education or general intellectual achievement by schooling in our empirical research, this has led to biased interpretations of …This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions … technical change. A puzzle remains why schooling does not have broader direct impacts in agriculture. Furthermore, as we proxy …
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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This Joint Advisory Note on the Democratic Republic of the Congo discusses economic growth and employment-creating sectors. The agriculture and mining sectors are projected to continue their expansion, while simultaneously raising labor productivity and freeing up labor. The urban population is...
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