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Laws on age at school entry affect student achievement and often change for a number of reasons. Older students are more mature and ready to learn. This can have positive impacts on academic, employment, and earnings outcomes. The costs of holding children back include another year of childcare...
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Durchschnittsalter der Kinder im Kindergarten niedriger ist, eine erhöhte intergenerationale Bildungsmobilität aufweisen. Zum gleichen … Schluss kommen wir, wenn wir anstelle des Durchschnittsalters den Anteil der Vier- und Fünfjährigen im Kindergarten als …This study investigates whether early kindergarten attendance can affect intergenerational educational mobility between …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …
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It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...
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innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …
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lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
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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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At the national level, it has long been observed that a country’s average education level is negatively associated with … its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children’s education is negatively … children and the average education level (the quantity–quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …
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in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …
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