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The demographic cycle and optimal schooling choices.
Southern Economic Journal; Oct 1, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...individuals consider expected returns to an additional level of schooling, which is a function of expected wages at different schooling levels, [W.sub.c] through...The final form of the schooling equation for this study includes two expected return variables in order to accommodate...
Market returns, transfers and demand for schooling in Malaysia, 1976-89.
Journal of Development Studies; Feb 1, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...may underestimate the returns education yields for...their children. Child schooling benefits parents in...they expect a direct return. The greater the investment...examined the effect of schooling on labour market returns, with a few exceptions...signals enter into the schooling ...
The Impacts of Educational Expansion and Schooling Inequality on Income Distribution.
Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics; Mar 22, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...distribution. The effect of schooling on income inequality remains...controversial. If the rate of return on s years of schooling is independent from s years, an increase in the level of schooling leads to more income inequality...
Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling.(Statistical Data Included)
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics; Jul 1, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...influenced to acquire more schooling through some rule or incentive that typically affects schooling decisions of a subgroup of the population. If the return to education is not constant...generate different results when returns differ across groups. It...strategies, such as compulsory ...
No Longer a Fringe Movement.(home schooling)(Brief Article)
Newsweek; Oct 5, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...freighted with difficulties. Home schooling, in short, has its own complexities...they are not cut out for home schooling and return their kids, swiftly, to school...The ultimate lesson of home schooling, that we are free to pursue...
Various empirical frameworks for obtaining estimates of the rate of return on years of schooling: ordinary least-squares may be appropriate after all.
Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business; Dec 1, 1991; ; 700+ Words ...ESTIMATES OF THE RATE OF RETURN ON YEARS OF SCHOOLING: ORDINARY LEAST-SQUARES...estimate of the rate of return on years of schooling when this variable is...estimate of the rate of return on years of schooling obtained from an OLS framework...
Community influences on schooling and work activity of youth in Pakistan.
Pakistan Development Review; Dec 22, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...modelling their work and schooling simultaneously and (2) assessing...availability of schools, wage returns to education, and infrastructure...community level on youth work and schooling. Results demonstrate that...influences his or her work and schooling participation. Specifically...
Gender Differences in Land Inheritance, Schooling and Lifetime Income: Evidence from the Rural Philippines.
Journal of Development Studies; Apr 1, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...Philippines, land inheritance and schooling investments are the two major...intensive in male labour, where returns to specific experience may...invest more in daughters' schooling because returns to female schooling have risen in the non-farm...
Honoring Moore's achievements.(LIFE - SCHOOLS)(HOME-SCHOOLING TODAY)
The Washington Times; Aug 20, 2007; 700+ Words ...involvement, it's likely that home-schooling would not be as popular as it...missionary families. For home-schooling to return to its previous place in society...the problems of institutional schooling as he began pulling together...
Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?
Journal of Development Studies; Oct 1, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...generally high rates of return to schooling, particularly at the...possibility that Mincerian returns may be biased if differences...family background and schooling quality are ignored...quality factors can cause schooling to pick up their effect...overestimation of the rate of ...
Travel Schooling: Helping Children Learn Through Travel.(Statistical Data Included)
Childhood Education; Sep 15, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...Fundamentals of Travel Schooling Travel schooling, like home schooling, is a serious responsibility and...parents to help them plan for travel schooling will increase the likelihood that a child will return to his or her classroom with the...
The Spread of Primary Schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Fertility Change.
Population and Development Review; Sep 1, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...assess trends in children's schooling; elsewhere UNESCO gross enrollment...relationships between levels of schooling attained and recent markers...parents, and rising rates of return to educational and health...between the achievement of mass schooling and the onset of demographi...
More are at home with home schooling; The number of Minnesota students educated mainly that way has doubled over the past decade, and it's mostly an exurban and rural phenomenon.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); Jan 31, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...children. In contrast, home schooling is far more prevalent in the...Northfield until she opted to return to a traditional school...and family So why is home schooling much more common outside the...said that a map of home-schooling hot spots is a map of "what...
Who gets primary schooling in Pakistan: inequalities among and within families.(Report)
Pakistan Development Review; Jun 22, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...a multivariate analysis of schooling determinants, focusing on...differences among children in schooling outcomes. Throughout the...rural areas. (1) PRIMARY SCHOOLING: A QUESTION OF MISPLACED...literatures that the social rates of return to broad-based educational...rural Pakistan]. (2) These ...
Danger: Polite, literate children study here.(C)(Metropolitan)(Life/Schools)(Home-Schooling Today)
The Washington Times; Sep 3, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...While admitting that home-schooling works, and works well, the...much as a single textbook in return, we are costing them money...bad citizens. When home-schooling parents aren't busy undermining...nagging shortcomings" of home-schooling. When a psychotherapist studied...
It's time we went to year-round schooling.(Metropolitan Times)
The Washington Times; Jun 15, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...real value of year-round schooling is that it is less disruptive...they are bored and eager to return to class. But they are not...attempted to do a little home schooling of their own with reading...evidence that year-round schooling can actually save money in...
ICT and the returns to schooling and job-specific experience.(information and communication technologies)(Report)
National Institute Economic Review; Jul 1, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...effect on these returns of the capital...a rise in the return to schooling, and a reduction...between ICT and the returns to schooling versus employer...reduction in the return to job-specific...to estimate the return to schooling and tenure with...allowing the ...
The determinants of teenage schooling in Jamaica: rich vs. poor, females vs. males.
Journal of Development Studies; Apr 1, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...determines the demand for schooling, in order to assess the effectiveness...seeks to quantify the rate of return to an individual's investment...time and opportunity cost of schooling for household members, and...at the household demand for schooling [Deolalikar, 1993; Tansel...
Conveying values to new generation.(LIFE - SCHOOLS)(HOME-SCHOOLING TODAY)
The Washington Times; Jul 12, 2004; 700+ Words ...one argues that government schooling teaches children from a biblical...left the church, never to return, by age 18. Even if the...academic benefits of home-schooling are beyond dispute, and new...family bonds through home-schooling. Despite the benefits, the...
THE ROLE OF EXPECTATIONS IN ADOLESCENT SCHOOLING CHOICES: DO YOUTHS RESPOND TO ECONOMIC INCENTIVES?
Economic Inquiry; Jul 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...understanding their schooling choices by constructing...perceptions regarding the returns associated with graduating...influential in their schooling choices, even when...these expected income returns are choice-specific...completion-the first schooling decision over which...
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