Schooling, Citizen-Making, and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in France
Are schools an effective institution to build citizenship and to transmit values associated with a given citizenship regime? A survey of 300 middle and high school pupils showed that for pupils, the representation of the French citizenship model is ...
Elodie Roebroeck, Serge Guimond
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Schooling and Political Participation Revisited [PDF]
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. We introduce a focus on a set of variables-namely factor endowments-which in uence the relative productivity of human capital in ...
Davin Chor, Filipe R. Campante
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Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict [PDF]
It is all too often assumed that public education as we typically think of it today -- schooling provided and controlled by government -- constitutes the "foundation of American democracy." Such schooling, it is argued, has taken people of immensely ...
Neal McCluskey
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Technology-Enabled Learning: Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Sanjaya Mishra and Santosh Panda (Eds.)
Tony John Mays
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Internet Education and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions
The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries.
Lawrence Jin, Jang C. Jin
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Immigrants' return to schooling in Sweden [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to examine if the returns to immigrants’ schooling are lower than the returns to natives’ schooling. In addition the paper tries to establish whether immigrants who invest in different amounts of Swedish education also differ in ...
Nordin, Martin
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The Past, Present, and Possible Future of the Russian Education Assessment System
The article describes the key stages in the development of the education quality assessment system in Russia: certification of educational institutions, participation in international comparative studies, implementation of the Unified State Examination ...
Viktor Bolotov
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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital [PDF]
"This paper shows that neighborhood factors matter in schooling investments: in the face of the availability of a new technology that altered schooling returns, agents learned of the benefits of new returns to schooling from neighbors and adjusted ...
Yamauchi, Futoshi
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The Impact of Schooling on the Timing of Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from a Change in Compulsory Schooling Law [PDF]
This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the timing of marriage and early fertility using the 2003 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey and duration analysis methodology.
Dayıoğlu, Meltem +2 more
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Beyond universal access to elementary education in India: is it achievable at affordable costs? [PDF]
Investment in secondary schooling in India has been neglected for many years. Since the 1990s most emphasis has been on universalising access to elementary schooling, a task that remains far from complete. Under the 11 th National Plan Rastriya Madhyamic
Lewin, Keith M
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