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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores

Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...

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The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited

Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2012

above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above 400 and average schooling attainment cause national income, while the … share above 600 and the share with post-secondary schooling do not. Implicitly the best long-term development strategy for … poor countries is to increase the share of students who complete primary and secondary schooling. …

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Inequality beyond GDP : a long view

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - In: Review of income and wealth 69 (2023) 3, pp. 533-554

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Inequality beyond GDP : a long view

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2021

-weighted) fell in health and education since the late 1920s, due to the globalisation of mass schooling and the health transition …

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Troubling tradeoffs in the human development index

Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of development economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 201-209

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Religious decline in the 20th century West : testing alternative explanations

Franck, Raphaël; Iannaccone, Laurence R. - In: Public choice 159 (2014) 3/4, pp. 385-414

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Internet education and economic growth : evidence from cross-country regressions

Jin, Lawrence; Jin, Jang Cheong - In: Economies : open access journal 2 (2014) 1, pp. 78-94

The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries. Regression results show that the frequent usage of the Internet has a positive and...

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A simple model of globalization, schooling and skill acquisition

Davidson, Carl; Sly, Nicholas - In: European economic review : EER 71 (2014), pp. 209-227

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Decomposing fertility differences across world regions and over time : is improved health more important than women's schooling? ; background paper for the Economic and Social Prog...

Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999

correlates of fertility differences across space and over time are female schooling and health, with the former having larger … fertility declines over time. This suggests that the importance of associations of increased female schooling relative to those …

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Threshold effects of human capital : schooling and economic growth

Ahsan, Humna; Haque, M. Emranul - 2015

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