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lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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Several reasons are responsible for income disparity across different nations. Education established itself to be the … primary reason for such disparities. Therefore, estimation of return on investments in education has become a great concern of … investments in education and found lower return for developing and least developed countries. Therefore, the study aimed to …
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played by academic two-year colleges in post-secondary education: Students, as they learn about the uncertain educational … capital. A theory of education is built and contrasted empirically to find that (i) option value explains a large part of …
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bilingual education programs (which use some native language instruction) and English-only programs are not significantly …
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Concerns about poor student performance have led schools to diverge from traditional teacher compensation and base a portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004....
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with limited prior education, we find a relative life-time earnings advantage of general training. …
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Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often competing, firms. Researchers now recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Evidence indicates that financial returns to firms vary. Some recoup...
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This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship universities in Brazil. By comparing applicants with different ages at school entry depending...
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Differences in college enrollment between poor and rich are striking in Latin America. Explanations such as differences in college preparedness and credit constraints have been advanced. An alternative explanation could be differences in information sets between poor and rich, for example, about...
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)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained level of education corresponds to the qualificational requirements of his or her job … requirements of their jobs. Furthermore, there are workers perfectly matched with respect to their education who, nevertheless …
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