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The Macroeconomic Cost of College Dropouts
Vardishvili, Oliko - 2021
More than 40% of US college students drop out without gaining a degree. This paper investigates whether dropouts are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242235
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Further Evidence Against the Laissez Faire Origins of American Higher Education Hypothesis
Bennett, Daniel L. - 2014
Bennett (2014) provides a critical challenge to a common view held by education scholars that American higher education was governed by a free market during the post-Revolution antebellum, suggesting that the state was more involved in shaping the sector than has traditionally been recognized....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063543
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110312
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches
Aina, Carmen - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862485
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The Evidence on Universal Preschool : Are Benefits Worth the Cost?
Armor, David J. - 2015
Calls for universal preschool programs have become commonplace, reinforced by President Obama's call for “high-quality preschool for all” in 2013. Any program that could cost state and federal taxpayers $50 billion per year warrants a closer look at the evidence on its effectiveness.This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030455
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El modelo educativo venezolano y sus desafíos en el siglo XXI. Algunos efectos de la reforma educativa
Parra, Gabriel; Cejas M., Magda - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2009) 10, pp. 109-123
The present report shows some of the most important aspects in relation to the technoformative processes of Latin America, with special reference to the case of Venezuela. As a first point, some historical antecedents are highlighted which allow to delineate some reaches of the culturing model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008590980
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Desarrollo de la Educación en Cuba después del año 1959
González, González; Pedro, José; Reyes Velázquez, Raúl - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2009) 10, pp. 87-107
The educational revolution since 1959, with the abolition of the Batista dictatorship, left the Literacy Campaign, which allowed a quantitative and qualitative change stressed today that the Cuban nation by the level of this specialists in various science aspects. Today is currently running the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008590984
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The economics of healthy ageing in China
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China … ageing, policy practices and measures, organization, finances and manpower resources to promote healthy ageing in China. Up … drawn with respect to conditions of healthy ageing in China and about the state policy in this regard. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452187
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The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China … ageing, policy practices and measures, organization, finances and manpower resources to promote healthy ageing in China. Up … drawn with respect to conditions of healthy ageing in China and about the state policy in this regard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999025