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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in … five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea … improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320006
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Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital : evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana - 2011
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308106
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Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier - 2011
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123916
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Effects and Solutions
Glassman, Amanda L.; Silverman, Rachel; McQueston, Katherine - 2012
evidence on the socioeconomic consequences of and methods to reduce of teenage pregnancy in the developing world. The review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040526
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The state of doctoral research in Uzbekistan : results of a survey of doctoral students in agricultural economics
Ganiev, Ibragim; Djanibekov, Nodir; Hasanov, Shavkat; … - 2017
PhD students, raise the incentives for conducting high-quality research that is published internationally, and support …
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We call this scenario "vibrant". It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533168
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario “vibrant.” It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227788
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476804
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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Impact of Duration of Primary Education on School Outcomes : A Cross-Country Analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2013
Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071745