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education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a … country after graduation, incentivises the host country to improve its education quality. A higher education quality in turn …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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particular, investment in education is much lower in the Arab sector and so is the educational attainment. To explain these … each sector the typical household labor participation and education investment responses to various government intervention … schemes. Specifically, we find that due to strong income effects, the disadvantaged group (Arabs) investment in education …
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The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social … benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers … a new scholarly contribution where firm and household production with education externalities and the endogeneity of new …
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by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to … households' education decisions into enrollment, education expenditure, and share of the education expenditure allocated for the … quality of education like private tutoring. We find a strong pro-female bias in school enrollment but pro-male bias in the …
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better educational outcomes: quality pre-primary education, quality teaching, accountability and autonomy of teaching … institutions, comprehensive lower secondary education and availability of individual financing for the pursuit of higher education. …
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423667
How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans trade off educational resources between quick and slow...
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