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El presente estudio investiga el efecto del número de hijos y el orden de nacimiento en la asistencia a la escuela, en la probabilidad de retraso escolar y en el año o grado normativo para la edad en niños de 6 a 14 años de edad. La estrategia de identificación se basa en el uso de...
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Researchers have defined and assessed inequalities and inequities in education in various ways, making it difficult to … equality and equity in education and discusses the prominent issues regarding the use of large-scale national and international …
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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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Philippine higher education (HE) plays an important role in the country’s economy and is vital in achieving global ….This could be traceable to the populist education policy all past governments have adopted.Poor quality HE led to poor quality …
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in Vietnam. In 2005, Holsinger called for further analysis of education inequality. Here we take up this challenge, with … education spending or attainment per se, but of its concentration along income lines. …
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young children from disadvantaged backgrounds, enhancing their future success in education and in the labour market. However …
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …
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I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find very substantial differences across family background groups in the personality traits that...
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This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new … efficiency criterion related to the supply and demand sides of education and training policies in Sudan. We provide a new … education (share in enrolment in education) is most probably due to economic reasons (per capita income and poverty rate …
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of education, training and health services in Sudan. Different from Sudanese literature, we provide new contributions by … of education, training and health services in Sudan. We fill an important gap in Sudanese literature by explaining that … regional inequality in the demand for education (share in enrolment in education) is most probably due to economic reasons (per …
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