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The value of private schools: evidence from Pakistan

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Families are willing to pay substantially for reductions in distance to school, but in contrast, price elasticities are low. Using the demand estimates, we show that the existence of a low fee private school market is of great value fo...

A culpa no pós-cuidador enlutado por cancro: revisão da literatura científica

Survival of the fittest: tourism exposure and firm survival

In this article, a discrete-time hazard model to study firm survival in the Portuguese Tourism sector is estimated. This sector has experienced a remarkable performance over the last decades. Results show that when compared to other sectors, tourism firms are more likely to exit: (i) if they are young (less than 10 years of existence); and (ii) if they belong to the group of worse performers (i.e. belong to the...

Risk and heterogeneity in benefits from vocational versus general secondary edu...

We estimate a dynamic model of individual labour market careers (turnover and search, wage development) on Portuguese panel data of graduates from vocational and general secondary education. We find that vocational graduates benefit more from the internal labour market than from the external market. This holds even more for mature than for young individuals. This hurts as among the mature, vocational has higher...

Análise ao conceito de culpa: Da divergência conceptual à sua implicação para a...

Enquadramento: A culpa apresenta-se como um fenómeno alvo de estudo em várias áreas do conhecimento, inclusive em enfermagem. Contudo, a definição do seu conceito apresenta divergências entre as várias disciplinas, e tal emerge como um dos principais obstáculos à realização de estudos sobre o tema. Objetivo: O presente estudo, resultante de uma revisão narrativa da literatura, tem como objetivo apresentar uma a...

Learning through repetition? A dynamic evaluation of grade retention in Portugal

High rates of grade retention are a matter of much controversy and debate worldwide. Although some students may learn more with extended classroom time, other students get discouraged and drop out of school. This paper develops and implements a dynamic value-added modeling approach for estimating grade retention effects in Portuguese high schools where over 40% of students were retained. The statistical model i...

Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education...

We document and analyse the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education in Portugal between 1994 and 2013. As Portuguese workers have been educated in different school systems, we have to distinguish between birth cohorts. Analysing the wage gaps within cohorts, we find no support for either the human capital prediction of crossing wage profiles or the hypothesis that general graduates increasin...

Human capital spillovers and returns to education

In this paper, we quantify the impact of co-workers’ human capital on a worker’s productivity and, more specifically, the spillovers of co-workers’ education within the workplace. We identify the impact of peer quality and provide an unambiguous decomposition of the impact of unobserved heterogeneity on the estimated returns to education. We find that peer effects are quite sizeable. A one standard deviation in...

Analysis of the concept of guilt: from conceptual divergence to its implication...

Background: Guilt has been an object of study in several areas of knowledge, including nursing. However, this concept is defined differently across disciplines, which is one of the main obstacles to developing studies on this topic. Objective: This study results from a narrative literature review. It aims to present a conceptual analysis of guilt while reflecting on the need to study the definition of the conce...

O conceito de culpa no pós-cuidador: a scoping review