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International school test scores and economic growth
Atherton, Paul; Appleton, Simon; Bleaney, Michael F. - In: Bulletin of economic research 65 (2013) 1, pp. 82-90
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Do the recent labor market changes negatively affect schooling?
Du, Yang - In: China & world economy 21 (2013) 2, pp. 38-55
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Private education provision and public finance : the Netherlands
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - In: Education economics 21 (2013) 4, pp. 392-414
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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Schooling and national income : how large are the externalities?
Breton, Theodore R. - In: Education economics 18 (2010) 1, pp. 67-92
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How do hurricanes impact achievement in school? : a Caribbean perspective
Spencer, Nekeisha; Polachek, Solomon W.; Strobl, Eric - 2016
relationship at the school, parish, year and country level. The results show a negative and significant effect on performance in … the sciences if hurricanes strike when school is in session and a positive or no effect when school is not in session. In …
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Sibling health, schooling and longer-term developmental outcomes
Ryan, Chris; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … the children who start school later. In contrast, for the children who commence school earlier, we do not find any …-term nature. We hypothesise that an early school start achieves this by lessening the importance of resource-access inequalities …
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Late start with extra schooling : the effect of school entry-age increase and the introduction of preparatory year
Jha, Nikhil - 2014
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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407760