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residents of India. Reading news reports and some academic commentary in India, I find that private higher education is very … education, as a student and in a public university as a professor. The private higher education sector has a long and important … public four-year institutions, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education (2003). Many top universities - Columbia …
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Pressing questions about the merits of market accountability in K-12 education have spawned a large scholarly … for credible evidence on the effects of genuine education markets, economists should look to simulation models, indirect …
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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other due process procedure the Secretary [of Education] determines by regulation to be necessary.” Student …-athletes, coaches, and their supporters have never looked to the Department of Education (“DOE”) before to correct the wrongs they …
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Although most U.S. institutions of higher education now make appreciable use of work-based learning options, their … attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection between the work experience and …
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of student affairs departments within the broader context of higher education, and it begins to explore the view of the …
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attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education’s impact. Moreover, observable …
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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At the regional scale, human capital and agglomeration forces are assumed to shape innovative capacity, but there are likely to be more direct channels like the development and commercialization of new products. This article examines the relationship between inventive activity and productivity...
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In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel for European countries and apply instrumental variables techniques to find that public funding for schooling - regardless at what level - does increase college enrolment alike...
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