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This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a possible solution to the problem of reliability of assessment used in some universities. Often students do not know or understand according to which the criteria they have been assessed, and this leads to student dissatisfaction with their final marks...
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, experience and education are highly valued in the formal sector. Over time, the importance of education in securing labour market … access increases by about 5 and 16 percentage points for primary and secondary education levels respectively. However, there … are sharp gender differences. For men, the importance of education increases while for women it declines suggesting the …
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, economists believe that educating workers plays a critical role. Individuals invest in education because of the expected benefits … knowledge spillovers associated with increased education can actually serve as an engine of growth for local and national …
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Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam.Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...
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CJEL Classifications: 35; I20; J24;
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-oriented research approach is used in order to develop grounded design principles for organizing education.By drawing on the literature … about organizational design and learning, several preliminary design ideas for organizing undergraduate education are … thesis projects.The design principles grounded in these two cases are, in sum: designing education as an authentic …
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