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In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …
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payments, limiting the state’s economic development capability. In the face of extensive corruption, it is challenging for the …
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We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country’s required upper...
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direct investment and large firms is a new channel through which the war legacy impedes local development in Vietnam. A 1 …
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We empirically examine whether violation of hypergamy - which occurs when the wife's economic status equals or exceeds that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of hypergamy violation on domestic violence, however, is...
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developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in …
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly …
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even return home at some time with better human capital. Functioning diasporas can lead to stable factors of development …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … an effective development policy. …
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total one never is, if education is available, and the disutility of child labour can be compensated by the expected utility … self-enforcing, or actually counterproductive. If the government wants to re- duce child labour and raise education to the …
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Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …
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