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This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational...
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for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated …
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Over the last decade, GDP growth in emerging Asia was roughly twice as fast as average world growth. The IMF’s Global Economy Model (GEM) is used to estimate the impact that emerging Asia’s growth differential has had on Australia. The simulation analysis, which replicates some key...
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quality of capital) and neutral technological change (related to the organization of productive activities). It concludes that …
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institution’s credit worthiness and the return on its market value, and importantly, on the level and quality of capital … steps taken to increase resilience, notably higher capitalization. Our results suggest increased capital buffers may …
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The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has proven challenging. This paper seeks to overcome the difficulties of earlier studies by using a hybrid approach to measure the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging...
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The inclusiveness of growth depends on the extent of access to economic and social opportunities. This paper applies the concept of social opportunity function to ascertain the inclusiveness of growth episodes in selected African countries. Premised on the concept of social welfare function,...
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Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education. However, even if spending were perfectly targeted, it is not evident that spending by itself will lead to higher educational attainment. Bolivian household data is used in this paper to ascertain the...
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a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy … promote? This paper develops an analytical framework to address this question. It shows how the composition of human capital … stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on …
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Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …
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