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This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past … 25 years. It highlights the trends on how the labor market used educated workers. It also reviews how education has …
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This paper explores the impact of gender differences in the desire for sex and the distribution of power in the … contraceptives, the gender wage gap, and female bargaining power, the economy assumes one of two possible equilibria. At the … traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern …
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attempting the economic rehabilitation of the beneficiaries. Hirsch systematically suggests that education and professional …-Hungarian Empire, through education and professional training. In 1891, after discarding the possibility of improving the quality of … Jewish Colonization Association in the colonies should have been all consistent with Hirsch's vision on education. The …
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management … System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A …
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education. However, it is alleged that the international community and governments worldwide do not yet recognise the full … potential and transformative power of education as a catalyst for human development, even if education is indeed considered a …
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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