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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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To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income and other positively skewed distributions, knowledge of estimation methods and the ability to compute quantities of interest from the estimated parameters are required. We review estimation methodology...
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–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …
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widened over time, but an incomplete catching up -largely explained by education- occurred since 1900, but faded away after …
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This paper provides a long-run view of well-being inequality at world scale based on a new historical dataset. Trends … increased until the third quarter of the twentieth century; in terms of well-being, inequality fell steadily since World War I …. The spread of mass primary education and the health transitions were its main drivers. The gap between the West and the …
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widened over time, but an incomplete catching up &-largely explained by education- occurred since 1900, but faded away after …
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–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …
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The purpose of this article is to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between wealth and non-cognitive skills for children in Colombia. This article contributes to the existing literature of skills formation in three ways. First, methodological shortcomings of previous works...
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–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …
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firms’ exigencies concerning the qualification of work force through actions like: developing offers of early education …; multiplying offers of secondary education, developing post-degree offers (master degree and doctor’s degree); adjustment of … educational offers to new demands and exigencies of working market and local community, promoting partnership in education; using …
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