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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017
investments in tertiary education are needed in order to fully realize the benefit of the investments in primary school. Family … received higher public investment in primary education were more likely to complete secondary school and attain tertiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613140
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540560
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Age-specific education inequality, education mobility and income growth
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; KC, Samir; Sauer, Petra - 2013
We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education attainment trends on economic growth. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432435
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: The promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively … neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th … found to be not different than India's. Finally, the paper reviews briefly efforts of the government to expand TVET at …
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023
the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly … understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random … conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, and social skill. The implied effects of a 10-15 percentage point change in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800572
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly … understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random … conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, and social skill. The implied effects of a 10-15 percentage point change in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Four Facts about Human Capital
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation across countries. Second, human capital...
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