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education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …
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; education ; development …Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual’s job and earnings … importance of these higher levels over time. -- Primary school enrollment ; household-level ; multilevel modeling ; Caribbean …
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The study of education in developing countries has been transformed by the rapid increase in the feasibility and … broad range of research questions regarding education in developing countries that have been addressed using field … education. The main goal for this chapter is to serve as a reference for students, researchers, and practitioners by summarizing …
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One of the biggest challenges facing the education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina is bridging the gap between the … current state of higher education and the demand for research, innovation and a robust STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering …, Mathematics) curriculum. Higher education instiutions (HEIs) face poor R&D infrastructure while companies struggle with limited …
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Without doubt modern education in statistics must involve practical, computer-based data analysis but the question … arises whether and how computational elements should be integrated into the canon of methodological education. Should the … courses?In this paper we address these questions and discuss where e-techniques have their limits in statistics education …
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Without doubt modern education in statistics must involve practical, computer-based data analysis but the question … arises whether and how computational elements should be integrated into the canon of methodological education. Should the … courses? In this paper we address these questions and discuss where e-techniques have their limits in statistics education …
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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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In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...
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