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The article deals with higher education reform in Russia. Special attention is paid to the innovations after the … universities, whether they do create a more competitive environment (which promotes a better education), and how the normative per … capita financing affects the higher education system. Analysis of the first reform steps shows: the results are contradictory …
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the world. Later we saw the same pattern in higher education in Europe and Australia. Since the beginning of this new 21st … aspirations for globalization there is also a corresponding increase in efforts to upscale higher education. But can universities …
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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...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made a major impact on higher education and affected students’ livelihoods and attainment of … education. To help students during these challenging times the Federal CARES Act was established to provide financial relief and … education by assessing the current factors associated with the national funding model. Additionally, three additional models …
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In accordance with the President of the Russian Federation's Executive Order No 599 of 7 May 2012, at least one out of every 2.7 employed workers aged 25-65 years should be involved, in 2015, in one or other supplementary professional training program (either short-term or long-term)...
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income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …
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encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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those whose education stopped at high school. However, for individuals whose family income during high school was below 1 … prevalence and robustness of these differential returns to education across race and gender, finding that they are driven by …
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What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of 'education …
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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …
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