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expenditure on education, the analysis of which made it possible to determine the level of education funding in each country; the … expenditure on education in GDP, depending on the level of edu- cation, which made it possible to determine the priority and … sufficiency of education system funding; the cost allocation indicator by funding organizations; and the human development index …
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The paper examines the effect of population ageing on public education spending. On the one hand, ageing is expected to … have a negative effect on education, as an increasing number of retirees results in ‘intergenerational conflict' and, hence …, the condemnation of education expenditure. On the other hand, ageing, in combination with pay-as-you-go pension systems …
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In this paper we examine the effect of the demographic transition on public education, pension spending and the …, alongside population ageing, offers incentives for the working-age generation to invest in the public education of the young in … that the increasing share of elderly people has non-linear effects on both retirement and education spending. The former …
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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to host countries in Latin America where schooling and education appears … countries over the period from 1984 to 2008. We find that aid for education has a statistically significant positive effect on …
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This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and … workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and quality of education. We characterize constrained …. Implementation through income and education dependent taxes is discussed, as well as education mandates. A key insight is that …
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invest in their children’s education. In this paper, I describe a study undertaken to gauge the impact of microcredit … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some … determinants of the demand for education and then go on to consider what we know about how microcredit affects this demand. I find …
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In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, although we...
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privatization of tertiary education comes with a vast reduction in the number of students, an increase in the college wage premium … and longrun welfare losses of around 5 percent. Surprisingly, we find that from privatization of tertiary education …
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