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A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

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Chen, Wen-hao (contributor); Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2005

Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. -- poverty ; children …

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2005

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of … involves the clarification of feasible targets that may vary across the OECD. -- poverty ; children ; social policy …