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Despite the evidence for high returns to education at an individual level, large increases in education across the … problem. In India both men and women with more education live in households with greater consumption per capita. Yet in …
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Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
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(english) Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing … 2002. Substantial progress has been made in enrolling underprivileged children, but the quality of education now deserves … more emphasis. Indeed, the ‘education guarantee’ offered is incomplete, as the schools under study are affected by low …
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, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
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Using a panel of international student test scores 1980–2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576406
Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing the state …. Substantial progress has been made in enrolling underprivileged children, but the quality of education now deserves more emphasis …. Indeed, the ‘education guarantee’ offered is incomplete, as the schools under study are affected by low quantity and poor …
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We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
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school year, amplify the beneficial effects of education on several measures of health in later life, including self …
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