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Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual's job and earnings …
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We analyze what a second business degree reveals about the investment behavior of professional investors. Specifically, we compare performance, risk, and style of equity mutual fund managers having a CFA designation and an MBA degree to managers with only one of these qualifications. We document...
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In this paper, we examine the performance of male and female students participating in a unique and successful high school program called Keys to Financial Success. Using the Financial Fitness for Life High School Test (FFFL-HS) results from 965 students enrolled in a one-semester Keys course,...
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exports over GDP. We also separate the impacts of education and R&D on piracy, and find two effects with opposite signs …
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This paper investigates the "education-total factor productivity trade-off" in explaining per worker income differences …, we are able to study separately the dynamic of the average years of schooling (i.e. education level), the per worker … physical capital and education levels partially explain income differences between unlucky and lucky economies. We show …
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AbstractThis paper examines whether noncognitive skills — measures both by personality traits andeconomic preference parameters — influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea isthat noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We...
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with high wages are the first to adopt, leading to within-group wage inequality. Distinguishing skilled and unskilled … workers we show that between-group wage inequality falls when the first skilled workers adopt computers. When unskilled … workers start to use computers, between group wage inequality increases strongly because of the increased supply of unskilled …
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capital level in rural areas and knowledge and information level are rather poor. The low level of general education and … means of production, and depressing economic growth. Increasing the education level of farm population might be instrumental …
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