During the Great Recession, national public school per-pupil spending fell by roughly 7 percent and persisted beyond recovery. The impact of such large sustained education funding cuts is not well understood. To examine this, first, we document that recessionary drop in coincided with end decades-long growth both test scores college-going. Next, show this stalled educational progress was partic...

Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A szív- és érrendszeri betegségek a vezető halálokok között szerepelnek világszerte, az összes halálozás egyharmadáért, míg európai halálozások közel feléért felelősek. Célkitűzés: Vizsgálatunk célja volt heveny szívinfarktus okozta epidemiológiai egészségbiztosítási betegségteher elemzése. Adatok módszerek: Adataink Nemzeti Egészségbiztosítási Alapkezelő (NEAK) finansz...

The purpose of the study is to identify socio-psychological challenges that influence distance learning education performance be recognized and evaluated in COVID-19 pandemic situation develop planning utilization strategy for smooth high-quality online uninterrupted teaching environment future. A systematic random sampling survey method used collect information from 100 respondents on a ten-po...

There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important limiting factor for business growth is the level of human capital among the entrepreneurs. The present paper uses a randomized control trial to evaluate a business training program in Tanzania. Our results show that there is a positive average ...

Inequality of Learning amongst Immigrant Children in Industrialised Countries Literature examining immigrants’ educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants i...

This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a regression-discontinuity design reveal that larger federal transfers lead to a significant expansion of local pub...

We investigate the persistence of short-term effects of a high-quality school-based prekindergarten program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We analyze third-grade reading and math scores for two cohorts of students eligible to participate in pre-kindergarten in 2000-01 and 2005-06, using boosted regression and propensity score matching to select a comparison group of local students who did not participate ...

The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in 2006. On average, female wages are not lower than those of mal...

Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance. We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives. In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic natives and immigrants, Asian immigrants, and other natives. Variations in income per capita and especially p...

Standard economic models tend to be more speci…c about pecuniary payo¤s than non-pecuniary payo¤s to education. Based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we consider a model of career choice and identity where individuals derive nonpecuniary identity payo¤s. Using factor analysis on a range of attitude questions, we …nd two factors related to identity (career orientation and social orientation), whi...