It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side...

Internet addiction (IA) is a new disorder described in 1996 by the psychologist Kimberly Young. The aim of this paper is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek university students, 18-27 years old, are presented. The...

Für Deutschland als ressourcenarmes Hochlohnland ist die Bildung von Humankapital ein bedeutender Faktor für das Wirtschaftswachstum. Im Vergleich zu anderen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ist der Anteil der Bevölkerung mit einem tertiären Bildungsabschluss relativ gering. Durch die...

Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...

Electronic learning is such aspect of modern learning where lectures, examination or instruction performs exclusively through Internet, while the percentage of learning and using ICT is over 80%. Key elements of e-learning pattern are technological mainframe, curriculum, interaction, strategic...

The human capital competitiveness is directly influenced by the educational attainment, life long accumulation and capitalization of knowledge and competences.

Human development and social cohesion are not only important component, but essential premises and powerful drivers of sustainable development also.

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

El objetivo de la investigación fue conocer el funcionamiento de las Unidades de Gestión Educativa Local (UGEL) y ubicar los principales obstáculos que estas enfrentan para asumir una adecuada gestión de la educación en sus jurisdicciones. El supuesto fundamental de la misma es que los...

El objetivo general de este estudio es identificar los determinantes de la decisión de asistir (o desertar) a la escuela secundaria en el ámbito rural considerando aspectos tanto de la oferta como de la demanda. Con este fin, el estudio utiliza como fuente de información encuestas aplicadas a...