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growth, how then can societies promote them? This paper attempts to answer this question using the 2005 wave of the World … Values Survey data for 43 countries. We test the contention that education significantly impacts the relative importance an … education levels attach higher importance to values related to autonomy and economic achievement as compared to conformity to …
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This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping...
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the identification of different mechanisms in income-related...
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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current pursuit of education policy reforms and knowledge economy around the world, it is of policy relevance to theoretically …This study articulates the interaction between institutional governance, education and economic growth. Given the … analyze the main mechanisms by which the macroeconomic impact of education on growth (and economic development) occurs. Our …
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