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number of graduates. We use each pupil's comprehensive school grades to control for previous education / pupil quality. Also …
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education would have recovered quickly, and especially for the scenario in which the crisis persisted for a longer period … (several months), and in this case the solutions should provide equal access to education for all children and young people. We … world, including Romania. On the long term, this action has had, and will continue to have negative effects on education …
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education units to Internet and computers, the digital skills of pupils/students as well as of teachers, the availability of … years, the use of technology for education purposes has not followed the same trend. Reducing the negative impact on …The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education in Romania and worldwide. Radical measures have been …
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Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...
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consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …
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An overall picture of the education system in the countryside reveals that there are still schools that are not … importance that education has in in personal development of individuals and of society implicitly, there are not few schools that … terms of ensuring adequate infrastructure for a quality education or at least comparable to that in the urban area - clean …
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Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, in particular for low-achievers. We study a novel type of RPF designed to overcome these...
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education is essential for economic growth as well as an important tool to achieve better equality. These effects have been … discussed and confirmed by several researchers, whose papers delineate evidence that education promotes growth, adoption of …, education is primarily considered by governments as a social policy tool. Some of these social policy tools are associated with …
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Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on … increase in the dispersion of the shares of people with voluntary education across space. We find that that an increase in …
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This paper investigates the effect of aggregate-level information shocks regarding support for a populist right-wing party on the individual disposition to report a respective political preference in survey interviews. Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its...
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