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Nicola Bianchi – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation contains three essays on the economics of education and innovation. In the first essay, I study the effects of increased access to higher education by examining a dramatic 1961 Italian reform that increased university enrollment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields by more than 200 percent in a few years.…
Descriptors: Economics, Educational Change, STEM Education, Foreign Countries
Brian, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation explores the milieu in which children of Imperial Berlin were raised. When contemporaries in the rapidly expanding capital of the Second German Empire (1871-1918) looked at children, this milieu darkened. The city, they argued, threatened children's growing bodies, and such institutions as the home, the clinic, and the school…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Rearing