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Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion,...
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Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … to identify the causal effect of schooling, we exploit temporal and geographic variation in the number of lower secondary … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …
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educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. …
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beneficial, since it may contribute to matching the demand and supply of schooling. The absence of adults, instead, has …
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prevalence and schooling steepened as mortality risk increased. The reduction in schooling is largest for women, and along the … extensive margin of the schooling decision. The findings indicate that the decline in human capital investment associated with …
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relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings …
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of the national reform on schooling. This paper provides a method with which these types of reforms can be identified in … 1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from … grades one to ten. The model estimates that the reform led to an increase in schooling of at least 1.2 years, and provides …
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beneficial, since it may contribute to matching the demand and supply of schooling. The absence of adults, instead, has …
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Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … to identify the causal effect of schooling, we exploit temporal and geographic variation in the number of lower secondary … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764620