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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?

Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and …

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Education Progress over the Last Italy's 150 Years: An (almost) Accomplished Unification

Zoppi S. - In: Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (2012) 1-2, pp. 17-30

inversely correlated to parents' schooling and socio-occupational conditions.Drop-out rates and attendance irregularities are …

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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...

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Scaling Up Nutrition for a More Resilient Mali: Nutrition Diagnostics and Costed Plan for Scaling Up

Shekar, Meera; Mattern, Max; Eozenou, Patric; Eberwein, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-effective interventions...

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Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes

Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Benedicte; Jung, Toni - Department of Economics, University of South Florida - 2014

This paper explores whether heat waves at conception, while in utero, or after birth cause better educational and health outcomes as adults. Using Census and DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa, we show that individuals conceived during heat waves have higher educational attainment and literacy,...

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Educación: la mejor herencia. Decisiones educativas y expectativas de los padres de familia.

Ansión, Juan; Lazarte, Alejandro; Matos, Silvia; … - Departamento de Economía, Pontificia Universidad …

Sobre el tema de la educación todos tenemos opinión, porque todos hemos pasado por la escuela y la mayoría tenemos además hijos, sobrinos o nietos cuyo futuro nos preocupa. Más allá de ideas sugerentes y de análisis más o menos brillantes, no disponemos sin embargo sino de estudios muy...

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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The External Effect of Urban Schooling Attainment on Workers’ Incomes in Ecuador

Breton, Theodore R.; Jaramillo, Juan Pablo - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2014

We estimate the direct and external effects of levels of schooling on personal income in Ecuador in 2011, using data … for 69,653 individuals in 567 municipalities. Using a Mincerian model that includes municipal levels of schooling and the … size of the municipality and controls for endogeneity, we find that each year of individual schooling raises individual …

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) March, pp. 1-10

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may …

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Children.s endowment, schooling, and work in Ethiopia

Dendir, Seife - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

I investigate the relationship between children.s endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children.s endowment is measured by scores on tests of cog

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