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What Determines the Gradient among Children in Developing Countries? Evidence from Indonesia
Park, Cheolsung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
12 years old. Schooling, on the other hand, is found to have a positive impact on health status of children from low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365086
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Human Capital vs. Physical Capital : A Cross-Country Analysis of Human Development Strategies
Siddiqui, Rizwana - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This study estimates a small simultaneous equation model using panel data from sixty-four countries for the years 1996 and 2004. The model is estimated by various techniquesOLS, TSLS, dummy variable approach introducing variation at the regional level, and fixed and random effect approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363341
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Building Social Trust : A Human Capital Approach
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Much evidence suggests individuals differ in their predisposition to cooperate, which is essentially a component of human capital. This paper examines the role of individual cooperative tendencies and their interactions with institutions in generating social trust; it also endogenizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363365
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors and the political con.icts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main production factor in economy evolves from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365197
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors, and political conicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main capital form in economy evolves from land to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365249
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The Chinese Export Bundles - Patterns, Puzzles and Possible Explanations
Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-Jin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Chinas exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the competitive pressure may be increasingly felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365522
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Schooling and Political Participation Revisited
Chor, Davin; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country … participation is more responsive to schooling in land-abundant countries, and less responsive in human capital-abundant countries … participation and its responsiveness to schooling, by lowering the opportunity cost of production income foregone. In an extension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365523
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore
Toh, Mun-Heng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore’s aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277970
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore
Toh, Mun-Heng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore’s aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278095
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore
Toh, Mun-Heng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore’s aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278247