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Deb, Partha; Gangaram, Anjelica – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The…
Descriptors: Violence, Risk, Student Behavior, Health
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Jing Liu; Megan Kuhfeld; Monica Lee; Danett Song – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Noncognitive skills are a critical component of human capital and are highly consequential for student life outcomes (Heckman et al., 2006; Cunha et al., 2010). While there is a great deal of debates around what noncognitive skills are, their measurement, and their interpretation (Duckworth & Yeager, 2015; Humphries & Kosse,…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Predictive Validity, Skill Development, Educational Policy
Anthony P. Carnevale; Lulu Kam; Martin Van Der Werf – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
Rural America has long been perceived as "left behind" by policies that leave it struggling while benefiting bustling urban cities and suburbs. That narrative holds some truth: rural America has a declining population, along with lower educational attainment and lower workforce participation than urban America. But while rural America…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Labor Force, Labor Force Development, Adults
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Rajeev Kumaramkandath – Higher Education Forum, 2024
The paper examines how new age pedagogies and neoliberal policies consciously work towards "naturalizing" English language's hegemony in institutions of Higher Education (IHE) in India. An ethnographic study the paper foregrounds the precarious positioning of non-English Indian languages "vis-à-vis" the pervading discourses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
OECD Publishing, 2024
The countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) -- an initiative between the Member States of the European Union and Eastern European and South Caucasus countries -- are navigating significant challenges while striving for sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. Education plays a crucial role in unlocking the potential of digitalisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Educational Quality
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Grunau, Philipp – Education Economics, 2020
According to a prominent hypothesis, the occurrence of educational mismatches is consistent with human capital theory since over- and undereducation are substitutes for heterogeneity in the abilities and skills among educational peers. Using German data[superscript 1] of literacy and numeracy test scores, I find evidence that compared to their…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Educational Attainment, Employees
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Guenther, John; Fogarty, Bill – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
In Australia, boarding schools and residential facilities for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) students have long been part of the educational landscape. Policy settings are paying considerable attention to boarding schools and residential colleges as secondary schooling options for First Nations students, particularly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Boarding Schools, Rural Schools
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Rossi, Federica; Goglio, Valentina – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Satellite university campuses -- whereby established universities decentralise part of their activities, often to areas previously lacking a university -- contribute to the diversification of university systems. While satellite campuses, due to their small scale and limited resources, might perform some activities less efficiently than their…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Economic Development, Higher Education, Administrative Organization
Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William P. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Racial affirmative action policies are widespread in college admissions. Yet, evidence on their effects before college is limited. Using four data sets, we study a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reinstated affirmative action in three states. Using nationwide SAT data for difference-in-differences and synthetic control analyses, we separately…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Entrance Examinations, White Students, Minority Group Students
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Wolf, Patrick J.; Cheng, Albert; Wang, Wendy; Wilcox, W. Bradford – Journal of Catholic Education, 2022
Private religious schools are widely seen as value-laden communities that mold the character of their students. Thus, we expect adults who attended religious schools as children to demonstrate more favorable family outcomes related to stable marriages and childbearing. We further expect Protestant schooling to have a more powerful effect on…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Religious Education, Protestants, Catholic Schools
Wood, Duncan – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2022
At a time when the Mexican and United States governments are looking for an opportunity to diversify the bilateral agenda and strengthen the economic relationship, there is an urgent need to focus on the long term challenges of competitiveness and human capital in the region. Questions of infrastructure, standards, border procedures and energy are…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, International Educational Exchange, International Cooperation, Student Exchange Programs
Kavishe, Lulu-Lucy F. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As graduates have transitioned into the workforce, employers have complained that these younger employees lack the soft skills that are needed to be successful in the workforce. Soft skills are personal traits and skills that employers seek in employees. Internship programs can be used to develop soft skills. Few qualitative studies have looked at…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Soft Skills, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
Smith, Brent; Johnson, Andy; Hayden, Trey; Tolk, Florian – Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, 2022
The human capital supply chain is a complex network of systems with inherent challenges to accommodating Total Learning Architecture (TLA) operability. This document covers the objective end-state for Department of Defense (DoD) learning organizations migrating to TLA compliant data and microservices. This document is organized into sections that…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Public Agencies, Armed Forces, Information Systems
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Amina Al-Dhaif; Graham Hall; Rola Naeb – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter, we report on the experiences of learning English and identity negotiation of 14 Syrian adult Muslim refugees, both male and female and a variety of ages, recently arrived in the UK and enrolled at an ESOL college. Drawing on a range of data sources, we explore how the Syrian informants' religious identities acted both as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Adult Education, Refugees, English (Second Language)
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Leogrande, Angelo; Birardi, Giuseppe; Massaro, Alessandro; Galiano, Angelo Maurizio – European Journal of Educational Management, 2019
To make their mandate more efficient, universities have to either offer services to students either produce innovation and scientific research. From this point of view it is difficult for universities to focus their attention on economic and financial performance. Instead, it is much more relevant for the university to find models of governance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Mission, College Administration, Universities
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