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With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure …
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India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …
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field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …
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The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
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an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we …
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outcomes in childhood and adolescence in India. Combining historical rainfall data and longitudinal data from Young Lives, we …
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Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …
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Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and focuses on differential effects by skill...
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This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...
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This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...
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