The chapter presents a case study of a training course involving Italian early-secondary school teachers, which focuses on online tutors’ activities and roles. After a brief literature review, it relates the topic to the national e-learning training context, clarifying the tutors’ expected tasks within the evaluated teachers’ professional training experience. The aim is to analyze the roles pla...

Using German census data we estimate the causal effect of education on smoking and overweight/obesity using the abolition of secondary school fees as instrumental variable. The West German federal states enacted this reform at different dates after World War II generating exogenous variation in the access to secondary education. While we find a strong association between schooling and health be...

The first step in constructing timetables in secondary schools in Netherlands consists of constructing the clusterschemes for the higher classes. A clusterscheme contains clusterlines with optional subjects that will be taught in parallel; the problem is to divide these optional subjects in clusterlines, such that the number of hours needed is as low as possible. We describe an efficient branch...

The quantity-quality trade-off theory speculates that as the number of children increases, the quality (commonly understood as educational achievement) of the children declines. In this paper an instrumental variable approach is chosen to analyse the secondary school tracks attendance of German pupils as an early educational outcome. Sibship size of the parents and their age at first birth are ...

This paper aims to analyze the effect of human capital on economic growth. Linear regression models with ordinary least squares method have been used for the analysis in which the dependent variable of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth is decided according to real price and independent variables for human capital are enrollment rate in different education levels and also literacy r...

This paper looks at the role of pre-primary education in Germany using the German SocioEconomic Panel data set to determine if attending an early education program increases the probability of attending a higher level secondary school at age fourteen. In order to disentangle the effect of the early education program from family specific characteristics, I employ both family fixed effects estima...