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Education and Economic Well-Being in Racially Diverse Rural Counties: The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Mykerezi, Elton; Mills, Bradford F. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 34 (2004) 3, pp. 303-19
The role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in increasing the education and economic well-being of … rural Blacks is not, perhaps, as clear today as in the past given the abolition of formal segregation in public education … high concentrations of Blacks. Further, the impact of HBCUs in promoting college education among Blacks is above and beyond …
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and … approximately 1500 schools in 14 countries or regions. We perform regressions of student life satisfaction on the prevalence of …-selection. The average impact of group discussion is not small – a one standard deviation leads to an increase in life satisfaction …
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Great expectations The unintended consequences of educational choices
Ferrante, Francesco - AlmaLaurea Inter-University Consortium - 2014
mismatches in aspirations/expectations early in adult life; (d) the latter mismatches depend on education and are largely ….e. income, happiness, job and life satisfaction, health status. Nevertheless, to date few systematic efforts have been made to …, it fuels our aspirations in different life domains. The first two effects can be expected to improve people’s performance …
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A Happiness Test of Human Capital Theory
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
working conditions. Hence, the investigation here is to ascertain whether there is a happiness premium to education over and …
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores: evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Bartolini, Stefano; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and … approximately 1500 schools in 14 countries or regions. We perform regressions of student life satisfaction on the prevalence of …-selection. The average impact of group discussion is not small – a one standard deviation leads to an increase in life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745493
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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518911
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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An Index of Labour Market Well-being for OECD Countries
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...
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Education enrollment rate vs employment rate : implications for sustainable human capital development in Nigeria
Adejumo, Opeyemi Oluwabunmi; Asongu, Simplice; Adejumo, … - 2021
, through education especially at higher levels, will allow human capital to evolve dynamically and increase long-run growth in … Nigeria. This tendency engenders multiplier effects in stimulating sustainable development given that education-driven growth … growth. Therefore, investments in education have been identified as a vital channel for building human capital and achieving …
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