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Migration and educational aspirations : another channel of brain gain?

Böhme, Marcus - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced in destination countries can change the behavior of migrants and also of family members left behind. This paper suggests that brain gain can take...

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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

the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …

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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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Intergenerational transmission of education : the relative importance of transmission channels

Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez, Florian - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-44

intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America. A simultaneous equations model is applied to rich survey data … education affects the schooling outcome directly but also indirectly through the economic situation, which is particularly true …

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Female labor force participation and child education in India : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that a mother's participation in the labor force...

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....

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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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The impact of education on household income in rural Vietnam

Hung Van Vu - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 1/11, 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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A DEA-inspired model to evaluate the efficiency of education in OECD countries

Dominguez-Gil, Carlota; Contreras, Ignacio - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 31 (2021), pp. 329-346

considered to evaluate the efficiency in the use of the resources devoted to education by OECD countries. Similar to previous …

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The value of postgraduate students opinions in the quality management of academic e-learning

Rembielak, Grażyna; Marciniak, Renata - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 13 (2021) 1, pp. 183-194

The quality of online education is of interest to universities around the world. Only high quality and cyclical … evaluation are the conditions for obtaining students' satisfaction with this form of education. In the pandemic era, digital … dissemination and open education have become a special obligation of academic education. This paper aims to present the opinions of …

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