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This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the...
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especially among skilled individuals will soon become relevant for a country's economy. Also of importance is education of … education worsens the situation. Therefore family planning as well as fertility providing and educational measures are of major … education of their parents by using a Cobb-Douglas utility function which implies that children and consumption are …
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, education and innovation as well as geographical factors in a model of economic growth. The key relationships are estimated with … have appeared. Surprisingly, the high level of secondary education played no role to growth. Higher education, in contrast …
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. Household wealth, captured via an asset index, is found to have a signi?cant impact on education as well, supporting the idea …
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Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …
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an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …
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Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing …
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. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …
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We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy program (ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy class. Students in mobile phone literacy villages showed substantial gains in numeracy exam...
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The following volume reports the findings of an extensive survey about research in the field of East Asian Studies by scholars in central and eastern Europe. The purpose, methodology and major findings of this investigation are presented in the introduction to the report. Organised into two main...
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