Becoming modern involves the first massive and fundamental resocialisation of the population and secondly, the effective and efficient selection and allocation of appropriately talented and trained manpower. The education system is taken to be of singular importance in both functions. Two further facts ...
Studies have also shown that a mismatch between speciality and work role will lead to a significant decrease in production efficiency and the poor allocation and waste of human resources (Suhong, 2018; Rui et al., 2019). Therefore, this study adopted the change in the match between speciality...
Based on the China Education Panel Survey, this study discusses how gender role perception influences the mathematical capability of female students from the multilevel perspectives of individual, family, school, and region. This study finds that the ste
Although the importance of tastes in determining the allocation of scarce resources in an economy has been noticed since Adam Smith's work (seeRosenberg, 1968), it was after the utilitarian revolution that it became a key feature of decision behavior models. The statements that “agents do what...
Starting with the 306 politically relevant abstracts identified in Study 1, we generated 2,560 different survey variations each containing a subset of the abstracts. We used an algorithm to ensure random sequencing and allocation of abstracts to each independent rater. The final dataset captured 48,...
Recent decades have witnessed a global expansion of private supplementary tutoring, known as shadow education—additional support in academic subjects that takes place outside of regular school hours. Using the data of 55 countries from the Programme for
How successful and effective needs-based resource allocation in education can be—and how urgently it is needed—is additionally demonstrated by further programmes the city of Helsinki initiated to support schools and early childhood education in challenging contexts. As part of the city's "...
identifies the initiatives needed, together with the timing and sequencing, to be conducted at the various stages of the disaster management cycle; identifies the stakeholders that ought to be involved in the executions of these initiatives; and puts these elements together to outline a comprehensive...
(as opposed to 0.9% of fathers) and have therefore no occupation recorded in the survey. However, excluding all these students from the analysis would lead to a highly biased sample, leaving out those who have parents with the most gender-traditional household allocation of work. Moreover, ...
How task allocation mechanisms compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents. Charbonneau D, Hillis N, Dornhaus A (2015) “Lazy” in nature: ant colony time budgets show high’inactivity’ in the field as well as in the lab. Cole BJ (1986) The social behavior of lepto...