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What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 PISA Data
Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Vu, Khoa; Lee, Jongwook - 2021
Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments. We provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong...
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Does Parental Absence Harm Children's Education? Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Vu, Linh Hoang - 2022
have a better chance of enrolling at all levels of education than those from single-parent families. Within single … critical role of mothers in children's education. …
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Learning Inequalities during COVID-19: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Oseni, Gbemisola; Zezza, Alberto; … - 2022
, followed by those targeting households, communities, and regions. Households with higher education levels or living standards …
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A North-South agent based model of segmented labour markets. The role of education and trade asymmetries
Fanti, Lucrezia; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2023
of the education level they are able to provide. Education is modeled as a national-level policy differently targeting … in terms of both requested education level and offered wages. To address the role of trade and education, we experiment … with different education-policy and trade settings. Ultimately, we are interested in understanding the coupling effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001739
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Innovation and Self-Employment
Ciarli, Tommaso; Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Savona, Maria - 2020
The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments and the rise of alternative work arrangements, particularly selfemployment (SE). A literature review on the determinants of the emergence of non-standard work, alternative work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145571
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Trade, Education, Governance and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Asia and LAC
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports’ R&D content … accounting for its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) the impact of the education gap equals the sum of the governance and openness …
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Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019
Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...
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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985886
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The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
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