En la abundante literatura sobre el rendimiento académico se consideran de manera general 3 tipos distintos de determinantes que pueden tener influencia en el mismo: determinantes personales, sociales e institucionales. Dentro de los determinantes socio-ambientales y personales, el entorno...

The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. In contrast to the prevailing strategies, we estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth...

This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...

This Productivity Commission staff working paper (by Matthew Forbes, Andrew Barker and Stewart Turner) was released March 2010. <p>Human capital theory supports the view that people with higher levels of education and lower incidences of chronic illness should have higher labour productivity....</p></p>

Most studies of the Irish Parliamentary party and its leaders have, understandably, focused on issues directly concerning Ireland. There have been relatively few studies of the role of the Parliamentary party in broader British politics, particularly in relation to social issues. In order to...

The amount Canadians spend on healthcare is set to rise rapidly over the next two decades and Canadians need to face up to tough choices to deal with this “spending disease.” The study examines the trajectory of total healthcare spending – public and private – in Canada and the policy...

The article discusses the communication policy of the selected educational institutions in the region of Eastern Slovakia in the context of the analysis of potential customers’ - secondary school students’ familiarity with the institutions and favourable attitudes towards them. It monitors...

Evolution of preuniversity educational institution - taking into account the preuniversity educational institution in developing the human society, the following stages are distinguished in its development since its appearance until now and namely. The educational institution - basic unit of the...

Este documento plantea un modelo teórico de crecimiento económico con generaciones traslapadasen el que los individuos acumulan capital humano mediante la inversión en educación pública yprivada. La inversión pública es financiada con impuestos al salario y al consumo con el fin deevaluar...

A child’s access to health care and minimum nutrition should not depend on circumstances such as caste, religion, gender, place of birth, or other parental characteristics, which are beyond the control of a child. This paper uses two rounds of Indian National Family Health Surveys and concepts...