The progress knowledge and information technologies has significantly influenced education and the form of teaching-learning systems. The intention is a change to the teacher-pupil relationship placing the classroom center stage the learning and the interplay among students, and the...

The progress knowledge and information technologies has significantly influenced education and the form of teaching-learning systems. The intention is a change to the teacher-pupil relationship placing the classroom center stage the learning and the interplay among students, and the...

Finanzkompetenzen haben für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eine hohe Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag führt eine empirische Evaluation der Determinanten der Finanzkompetenz von Studierenden an einer deutschen Hochschule durch. Ein weiteres Ziel ist auch die Identifizierung der geschlechtsspezifischen...

In 1997 Turkey passed a law making middle school completion compulsory, increasing the mandatory education from 5 to 8 years. At the time of this policy change, only 3-in-5 students were completing middle school in Turkey. In this paper, I employ data from the 2011 and 2012 Turkish Household...

The effects of credit constraints on university participation are investigated in a setting where income contingent tuition loans are available to students. Students most likely to face credit constraints have the same or higher probability of attending university as all other students, given...

We study the impact of socio-economic status on enrollment and study decisions in higher education. We use a discrete choice approach to distinguish between three channels. First, students from disadvantaged backgrounds may be more sensitive to the costs of education. Second, they may have lower...

This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in tertiary education is a sequential process made under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty...

This paper considers a major educational reform implemented in Chile, one that increased voucher payments by 50% for students in the lowest 40% of the income distribution. This increased the revenues that schools received for serving low-income students and lowered the relative prices of private...

Since 2012, the average salary of school teachers has been increasing. In accordance with Presidential Executive Order No. 597 of 7 May 2012, by the end of that year it was to be raised so as to match the average wage level in each given region. However, 5 years later this still has not actually...