Showing 70,381 - 70,390 of 73,102
The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of the number of siblings on education in urban sub … on education. This event is used as instrumental variable in a two-stage least-squared estimation approach to investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098290
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098410
This paper investigates the role of wages, education and innovation in shaping employment structures in manufacturing … factors and employment dynamics by skill. As micro factors, we consider the role of education and wages by employee; as macro … deriving from a translong cost function, we empirically estimate the relationship between wages, education, technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098675
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098794
shaping choices of education and service made by the nobility. The paper presents the Westernization of the Russian elite as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098861
En el campo de la investigación, la interacción entre la familia y la escuela es ampliamente reconocida como uno de los factores centrales que influyen en la experiencia educativa formal de los estudiantes. Su importancia ha sido descrita desde las teorías clásicas más relevantes del...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098962
Utilizando la información disponible de los países de la región participantes en PISA 2009, este estudio se propone analizar comparativamente el impacto diferenciado del nivel socioeconómico sobre el rendimiento educativo. De igual modo, se analizará también de forma comparada la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098963
In this policy paper we discussed a broad range of topics covering student access to computers at home and school, different uses of computers for learning and the impact of ICT use on different groups of students. Introducing computers into schools generates both new opportunities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099279
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099451
This paper assesses the impact that drug cartels and their associated violence have had on development in Mexico. For this purpose, we monitor official and media reports to identify where cartels have operated with and without drug related homicides. Using the difference-in-difference kernel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099569