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The evolution of the gender test score gap through seventh grade: New insights from Australia using unconditional quantile regression and decomposition
Le, Huong Thu; Nguyen, Ha Trong - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 2, pp. 1-42
This paper documents the patterns and examines the factors contributing to a gender gap in educational achievements in early seventh grade of schooling using a recent and nationally representative panel of Australian children. Regression results indicate that females excel at non-numeracy...
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The impact of education on household income in rural Vietnam
In: International Journal of Financial Studies 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-9
Using data from the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, our study investigates the impact of education on … household income in rural Vietnam. Both mean and quantile regression analyses were employed to analyze the impact of education …. We found that education has a positive effect on the household income after controlling for various factors in the models …
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Regional per Capita-Income - The Importance of Region-Specific Production Factors
Fornahl, Dirk; Schaffer, Axel Johannes; Siegele, Jochen - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145 (2009) 2, pp. 155-185
Endowment with infrastructure, human and cultural capital is highly significant for regional economic performance. After clustering the regions, this hypothesis is tested for Austrian, German and Swiss NUTS 3 regions by applying a quantile regression analysis. First results confirm the...
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Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?
Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
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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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth
Popović, Milenko - In: Montenegrin Journal of Economics 2 (2006) 4, pp. 71-108
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. We start from general production function with heterogeneous labor input and...
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Education and retirement: Does University education at mid-age extend working life?
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-22
To our knowledge, this paper provides the first study evaluating the effects of higher education for adults on the … education in 1992-1993. Our sample is aged 42-55 at the time of enrollment and thus aged 60-73 in 2010. We find that higher … education increases labor market survival rates when aged 61-66 by about 5 percentage points. The estimates represent relatively …
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Educational stock and economic growth: The case of Greece over the period 1981-2009
Pegkas, Panagiotis - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 62 (2012) 1/2, pp. 56-71
This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 - 2009 by applying the …
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?
Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that higher average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for local residents with minimal education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984689
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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education
Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
invest in their children's education. In this paper, I describe a study undertaken to gauge the impact of microcredit … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some … determinants of the demand for education and then go on to consider what we know about how microcredit affects this demand. I find …
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