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The human capital competitiveness is directly influenced by the educational attainment, life long accumulation and capitalization of knowledge and competences.
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Many male and first-generation college-goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring …
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Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring …
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examines some of the rationale for the women's education and the discrimination against them in Eritrea. The paper highlights … life. Eritrean women contribute largely for the freedom and economic development. The girls' education during the colonial … ideological construction of gender identities in the country promotes males as being more important in the society. This paper …
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This paper presents an overview of gender differences in education outcomes in OECD countries. A rich set of indicators …-performance in education. Possible explanatory factors include incentives provided by changing employment opportunities for women …, demographic trends, as well as the higher sensitivity of boys to disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Gender differences in …
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This paper presents an overview of gender differences in education outcomes in OECD countries. A rich set of indicators …-performance in education. Possible explanatory factors include incentives provided by changing employment opportunities for women …, demographic trends, as well as the higher sensitivity of boys to disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Gender differences in …
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attainment of higher education across gender subgroups, social groups and also across the quintiles of economic variables. We …Using a recent national level survey data, we have systematically investigated the pattern of higher education … differential along gender, socioeconomic and geographical dimensions in India. We have found a salient differential in the …
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The purpose of this article is to discuss how policies can affect investment in tertiary education in ways that would … to higher education. To this end, the analysis focuses on the institutional set-up of tertiary education that provides … incentives for supplying quality educational services; the private returns from higher education which act to attract prospective …
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education supply on enrolment and the mobility decisions of high school graduates. Major gender differences emerge: the increase …The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the expansion of tertiary education supply on the educational … choices of young Italian high school graduates. A quasi-experimental setting given by the reform of the tertiary education …
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This paper demonstrates that short-term peer exposure can generate achievement effects which persist for several months and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students to freshmen teams. I find that the freshmen week...
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