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Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …
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an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …
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Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing …
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. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …
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We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy program (ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy class. Students in mobile phone literacy villages showed substantial gains in numeracy exam...
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The following volume reports the findings of an extensive survey about research in the field of East Asian Studies by scholars in central and eastern Europe. The purpose, methodology and major findings of this investigation are presented in the introduction to the report. Organised into two main...
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effects. Empirical evidence then, using PISA 2006 and focusing on Italian case, shows that education of mothers is an issue …
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software, and cryptographic systems, some types of specialized computing systems. In the Education Project two main mechanisms … grand scale new knowledge-management methods and put mechanisms into practice. Among the main intentions of the Education … Project the following should be mentioned: the modernization of its material-technical base, the internetization of education …
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We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
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correlation between general education and productivity of medical care. This paper focuses on the individual investments of laymen … in specific medical education as a decision problem in which the ex-post strategies of the individual are consultation … necessary conditions for investments in education is undertaken. …
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