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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect …

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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080120

Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in Michigan

Eberts, Randall W.; Hollenbeck, Kevin - 2002

Proponents of school reform have argued that charter schools and vouchers can provide adequate market pressure to improve the performance of traditional public schools. While the number of charter schools and student enrollment have burgeoned, relatively little attention has been paid to their...

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The Effect of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Attainment

Neal, Derek A. - 2008

Catholic secondary schooling on high school graduation rates and also examines Catholic schooling's effect on college … Churches and Church Membership to construct measures of access to Catholic secondary schooling for each county in the United … Catholic secondary schools are geographically concentrated in urban areas and that Catholic schooling greatly increases …

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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure

Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...

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Can vocational education improve schooling and labour outcomes? : evidence from a large expansion

Ferreira, João R.; Martins, Pedro S. - 2023

We evaluate the education and labour impact of vocational education and training (VET). Identification draws on different IVs from the large-scale, staggered introduction of VET courses in public schools in Portugal from 2005. We also exploit the large gender differences in VET, with many...

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School Closures and Student Achievement : Evidence from a High Stakes Exam

Riudavets, Marc; Uusitalo, Roope - 2023

We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure periods across schools between autumn 2020 and spring 2021....

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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement

Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022

It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...

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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357422

Mother or Motherland : Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2010

In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government policy) on the likelihood of transition from one educational level to the next. Our analysis suggests...

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