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Secondary school dropout and work outcomes in ten developing countries
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In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of secondary school dropout on the work outcomes of young people in ten developing countries, and found that the dropout decreases the probability of being employed in non-elementary occupations, suggesting that unskilled workers fail to meet the increasing demand for a skilled workforce.About:
This article is published in Journal of Policy Modeling.The article was published on 2019-07-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Workforce & Human capital.read more
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Research on coupling degree and coupling path between China’s carbon emission efficiency and industrial structure upgrading
Di Zhou,Xiaoru Zhang,Xueqin Wang +2 more
TL;DR: If the government prioritizes provinces with lowcarbon emission efficiency, carbon emission efficiency and the coupling efficiency with industrial structure can be improved, which would not only improve the coupling degree within each region but also alleviate the disharmony between regions.
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Predicting Computer Engineering students' dropout in Cuban Higher Education with pre-enrollment and early performance data
TL;DR: An educational data analytics case study aimed at the early detection of potential dropout in Computer Engineering studies in Cuba and obtaining an early assessment of the risk of dropout that can help defining prevention policies is presented.
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Negotiating social norms, the legacy of vertical health initiatives and contradicting health policies: a qualitative study of health professionals' perceptions and attitudes of providing adolescent sexual and reproductive health care in Arusha and Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that future research, policies and health programmes should consider the perspectives of health professionals and their challenges in delivering care for adolescents to help improve the understanding of how to effectively and sensitively implement sexual and reproductive health programmes for adolescents.
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Government expenditure and economic growth nexus in ECOWAS countries: A panel VAR approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the direction of causality between government expenditure and economic growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries and found no evidence of either unidirectional or bidirectional causal relationship between government expenditures and economic development in ECOWAS member countries.
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Improved governance of Indian school system through school consolidation
TL;DR: In this paper, a mathematical programming model for school consolidation that aims to minimize the total disruption and transfer the students to an alternative school considering the school network has been presented, and the model is then applied to a case for a district in the Indian state of Karnataka.
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A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010
Robert J. Barro,Jong-Wha Lee +1 more
TL;DR: Barro and Lee as mentioned in this paper used information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level.
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Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations
Eric A. Hanushek,Dennis D. Kimko +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that direct measures of labor-force quality from international mathematics and science test scores are strongly related to growth and that home-country quality differences of immigrants are directly related to U.S. earnings if the immigrants are educated in their own country but not in the United States.
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills, and support the economic benefits of effective school policy and develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over time, and along the within-country distribution.
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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings
Janet Currie,Enrico Moretti +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using Vital Statistics Natality data from 1970 to 1999 and found that higher maternal education improves infant health as measured by birth weight and gestational age.
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
TL;DR: This article developed a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time, and found a close relationship between educational achievement and GDP growth that is remarkably stable across extensive sensitivity analyses of specification, time period, and country samples.