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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education …-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education …-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties a particularly consequential outcome to … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260006
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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This paper traces the human capital development of 14 Asian countries for the period of 1900-60, using the age-heaping method. We place special emphasis on the gender gap in numeracy and its determinants. In particular, we test the validity of a U-hypothesis of gender equality, implying that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308058
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323207
The economics literature identifies three effects of schooling on national income; the direct effect on the earnings of the workers who receive the schooling and the external effects on workers´ earnings and on physical capital due to schooling´s spillover effect on the productivity of these...
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This paper traces the human capital development of 14 Asian countries for the period of 1900-60, using the age-heaping method. We place special emphasis on the gender gap in numeracy and its determinants. In particular, we test the validity of a U-hypothesis of gender equality, implying that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646434
This paper discusses a method to compare progress in reading achievement from primary to secondary school across countries. The method is similar to value-added models that take into account intake levels when comparing student progress in different schools. Value-added models are preferred over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366334
This paper provides new evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investment in child education using … in education at ages 15-24. Moreover, there is some evidence that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638758
Students´ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above...
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