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Karl Schulze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of three chapters that study individual investment in human capital and the incidence of economic shocks. I use administrative data to answer these questions, developing and applying structural methods to analyze individual choices in combination with a careful consideration of research design. Chapter 1 studies the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Majors (Students), College Students, Labor Market
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Ryan Brooks; Laura Mueller – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2024
It is no secret that humanities professors find themselves disenchanted by the current state of neoliberal universities; as the story goes, jobs are scarce, enrollment continues to drop, and students seem increasingly disconnected from the value of humanities-based classes. Universities and departments strive for new ways to respond to the current…
Descriptors: Democracy, Human Capital, Neoliberalism, Humanities
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Koeun Park; Verónica E. Valdez – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2024
Minnesota is known for its large concentrations of Hmong, Somali and Karen refugee-background students (RBSs). Drawing on an equity/heritage framework that centres educational equity and the sustaining of the cultural and linguistic practices of minoritized communities, this study examined how district/school websites with the highest enrolment of…
Descriptors: Refugees, Equal Education, Access to Education, Minority Group Students
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Luis Faundez; Robert Kaestner – Evaluation Review, 2025
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is often inconsistent with human capital theory. We…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
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Kelemu Zelalem Berhanu – International Journal of Educational Management, 2025
Purpose: Pedagogical leadership (PL) has been regarded as the best leadership style in the education sector. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a pedagogical leadership scale (PLS). Design/methodology/approach: Two distinct approaches (inductive and deductive) were utilized. First, a review of the literature was conducted, and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Instructional Leadership, Measures (Individuals)
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Kirsch, Irwin; Braun, Henry – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Mounting concerns about the levels and distributions of human capital, as well as how they are associated with outcomes for individuals and societies, have contributed to an increase in the number of national and international surveys. These surveys not only examine skills among school-age and adult populations, they also facilitate evaluation of…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Human Capital, Program Evaluation
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Matricano, Diego – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
This article investigates the influence that attending university classes can have on entrepreneurial processes leading to the creation of start-ups. In particular, attention is focused on the three main components of intellectual capital (IC) -- human, relational and structural capital -- that individuals can develop in university classes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Entrepreneurship, Intention
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Smith, Sara – Professional Development in Education, 2022
The professional doctorate creates opportunities for shared research and novel findings to inform and shape the workplace and cultivate professional capital. In this paper I discuss my own journey in undertaking an Educational doctorate. I critique how my methodological approach enabled me to successfully cross the range of boundaries that I…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Constructivism (Learning), Grounded Theory
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Barron, Ian; Taylor, Lisa; Macrae, Christina – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This paper explores haptic, affective, sensory and relational interconnections between a child (Erik) and objects, materials and a researcher-practitioner (Christina) at a nursery school in Manchester, United Kingdom (UK). In doing so, it draws upon a Post-humanist theoretical framework. Observational material was collected over the period of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Children, Childrens Attitudes
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Nunfam, Victor Fannam; Adjei, Norbert Adja Kwabena; Adam, Hafiz; Eshun, John Frank – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The paucity of empirical evidence on the limitations of the industrial attachment programme of technical universities for enhancing students' human capital in Africa tends to thwart concrete policy options. Design/methodology/approach: The study used the convergent mixed methods including 594 surveys, two focus groups and in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Graduate Students, Technical Education
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Yimam, Mohammed Hassen – Cogent Education, 2022
Training is a continuous process to improve the caliber of employees. The main objective of this study is to assess and investigate the impact of training on employees' performance in the technology focused academic institution. Methodology: This study used a quantitative approach and the cross-sectional survey was used to collect data from a…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Job Training, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
Royal, Rebecca S. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this explanatory sequential study was to identify factors associated with Pell grant recipients' persistence in a community college setting and to understand the influence of institutional actors on the formation of academic capital. Students completed a survey designed to measure the formation of students' academic capital (St.…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Human Capital
Lawrence Costa – ProQuest LLC, 2022
I study the effect of higher education on lifecycle earnings and focus on three ways in which education may help drive earnings: the effect of higher education on one's skills, the effect on one's ability to accumulate new skills in the future, and the relationship between education and one's likelihood of unemployment. In the first chapter, I…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Human Capital, Income, Educational Attainment
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Bartolucci, Francesco; Pennoni, Fulvia; Vittadini, Giorgio – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
In order to evaluate the effect of a policy or treatment with pre- and post-treatment outcomes, we propose an approach based on a transition model, which may be applied with multivariate outcomes and accounts for unobserved heterogeneity. This model is based on potential versions of discrete latent variables representing the individual…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Multivariate Analysis, Markov Processes, Human Capital
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Ben Giaber, Reem – London Review of Education, 2023
The dominant analytical and programmatic frameworks used when writing about conflict-affected contexts such as Libya in Global Northern academia belong to the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies (PACS). Within this, education is increasingly gaining attention as a tool for building peace and developing social justice. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Conflict, Democracy
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