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We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are …
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Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
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The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor … university education. Chapter 5 analyzes data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills to compare employment probabilities over the … working-life cycle for individuals with vocational and general education. An initial employment advantage of vocational …
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This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …
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This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …
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in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and …
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This paper estimates the impact of school quality on the transition to higher education examination (abbreviated as YGS … same cohort, we find that student quality explains the transition to higher education examination outcomes to a large …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....
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