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both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of … schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany … found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother …
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better education outcomes, especially for children. The causal impact of tenure, in particular of homeownership, on education …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that higher average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for local residents with minimal education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
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general education has led to an increase in hourly wages of men, but not of women, who completed basic vocational schools. …In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational … path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one …
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both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is … neither positive nor negative. Second, the effect of education on performance is positive and significant. Third, the return …
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Argentina has traditionally stood out in terms of educational outcomes among its Latin American counterparts. Schooling … 2006 National Education Law that made uppersecondary education compulsory. In this paper, instead, we claim that the …
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This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to generate new knowledge concerning the influences of...
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