We investigate the effect of speaking Spanish at home as a child on completed schooling and aptitude test scores using data on Hispanics who grew up in the U.S. from the NLSY79. We model the accumulation of traditional human capital and English fluency, leading to the joint determination of...

O aumento nos níveis de produto e de rendimento é uma condição fundamental para a promoção do desenvolvimento económico, nos países e nas regiões. Ceteris paribus, níveis de rendimento mais elevados permitem que as famílias possam usufruir de níveis de rendimento disponível também...

Developed countries, including New Zealand, used to consider their populations wholly literate, in the sense that almost all adults could read and write. Contemporary definitions expand the concept of literacy to include wider cognitive skills, and extend it across the whole population: people...

Este trabajo aporta una perspectiva del fenómeno de la sobreeducación, entendida como un desajuste por exceso, entre el nivel educativo alcanzado por el individuo y el exigido por el puesto de trabajo en el cual se desempeña; esto se debe a que existe una demanda laboral estrecha de puestos de...

Las inversiones educativas de la población colombiana han seguido un proceso de expansiónnotable que puede ilustrarse con el caso de la educación universitaria, que según datos delMinisterio de Educación Nacional (MEN), ha pasado de tener 271680 alumnos matriculados en1981 a más de 1212037...

Las deficiencias que registran los diferentes países de América Latina en los indicadores relacionados con el rendimiento escolar y la calidad educativa han sido un tema recurrente en la agenda política de los gobiernos de la región durante las últimas décadas. Diferentes estudios sugieren...

(VF)L'objectif de cet article est de faire une synthèse des analyses théoriques (issues des théories de l'agence et des coûts de transaction) et des résultats empiriques concernant le conseil d'administration. Après avoir rappelé le cadre d'analyse de cet organe proposé par la théorie...

It may be in the interest of low-ability individuals to subsidize the education of high-ability individuals. Sufficient conditions are surprisingly mild: positive externalities in education and complementarity in production between human capital and labor supplied by the low-ability individuals....

The author studies the European Schools, which are created and run by the European Unio; the majority of the European Schools' population is to be found in Brussels and Luxembourg, and the pupils include many "non-entitled", i.e. children whose parents are not employed by the Union. The schools...

As part of the restructuring of the education system since doi moi or Renovation in 1989, the government of Vietnam has implemented several policy changes. These include transforming some public institutions into private ones, promoting the establishment of "people's" and community educational...