The acquits of inter-governmental agreements, being signed by forty-six States in the Bologna Process context, as a starting point promoted by the European Union States, regions and universities to promote an area for academic integration (European Higher Education Area), is applied to three...

This paper implements the answer-copying detection methodology for multiple-choice tests developed in Sotaridona, van der Linden and Meijer [2006], based on Cohen's Kappa index. We present results of this methodology applied to the standardized test for college admissions in Colombia that took...

Günümüz dünyasındaki hızlı gelişmeler neticesinde yükseköğretim kurumlarından beklentiler çoğalmıştır. Yükseköğretim hizmetlerinin kalitesinin arttırılması ve bu kurumlarda kaliteyi hedef alan bir yönetim sisteminin oluşturulması zorunlu hale gelmiştir. Qafqaz...

Drawing on the PISA 2006 data set, this study examines the impact of school's socioeconomic composition on the science test scores of Spanish students enrolled in compulsory secondary education. We define school's composition in terms of the average parental human capital of students at that...

We exploit a child labor regulation that raised the minimum working age from 14 to 16 while leaving the age for compulsory education at 14 to provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on migration. Individuals born at the beginning of the year are more likely to complete compulsory...

We exploit a country-wide child labor regulation that eliminated the difference in school/work alternatives for children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of schooling. By not relying on changes to the school...

Drawing on PISA data of 2006, this study examines the impact of socio-economic school composition on science test score achievement for Spanish students in compulsory secondary schools. We define school composition in terms of the average parental human capital of students in the same school....

Drawing on PISA 2012 data, in this paper we study the impact of school’s socio-economic composition on the science test scores for Spanish lower-secondary education students. We adopt a semi-parametric methodology that enables spillovers to affect all the parameters in the educational...

Immer mehr erwerbstätige Menschen befürworten die Wahlmöglichkeiten zwischen Freizeit und Lohn (vgl. Ulrich 2001: 131).Teilzeitarbeit hat Auswirkungen auf das Familienleben, aber auch auf die Unternehmen. Auf der Ebene der Unternehmen steht eine große Auswahl innovativer Modelle zur...

We assess the impact of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program (FIP) on the employment and earnings of current and former cash assistance recipients. We use administrative data from many sources, including data from state cash assistance records and from employer reports of employment and...