This chapter discusses the psychological challenges faced by students in the process of learning in the classroom, particularly in Indonesia. Although many external factors can affect students' success in learning, such as quality teaching and adequate learning environment, internal factors such...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of some of the main empirical theoretical and realistic themes in the area of management student’s employability. The paper draws upon various studies to highlight the different themes necessary for the employability. It further draws upon...

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...

We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on entrepreneurial activity. One month after the...

Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the highest spending shares among OECD countries. However, educational outcomes remain poor and firms struggle to fill their vacancies, particularly in technical and scientific positions,...

This paper estimates the impact on children's learning of one specific education technology (EdTech) intervention in Bangladesh: providing tablets with educational software, combined with private tutoring, to out-of-school students using a randomized control trial. The provision of tablets and...

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

This paper, prepared for the National Planning Commission (NPC), examines progress in the education sector against the National Development Plan (NDP), but also assesses the NDP itself. In hindsight, how well-placed and realistic were the education priorities of the NDP, which was released in...

This paper presents a brief literature review of the uses of blockchain technology to record, store and disseminate proof of learning achievements. After reviewing the various potential or current uses of blockchain in post-secondary education institutions and other training organizations, this...

In the present paper will be presented an analysis of the open, excellent and attractive research systems based on the economic indicators taken from IUS2010, IUS2011 that uses the latest statistics from Eurostat and other internationally recognized sources as available at the time of analysis....