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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited

Asadullah, M. Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full...

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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising. Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...

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The role of income in money demand during hyper-inflation: the case of Yugoslavia

Nielsen, Bent; Mladenovic, Zorica - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

-inflation variables such as real income has been given a somewhat passive role, either assuming it exogenous or to have a negligible role … extreme Yugoslavian episode to investigate the role of income. The analysis suggests that even in extreme hyper-inflation the … monetary variables and real income are simultaneously determined. The methodology enables a description of the short term …

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PUBLIC EXPENDITURES GROWTH IN GREECE AND PORTUGAL: WAGNER'S LAW AND BEYOND.

COURAKIS, S.; MOURA-ROQUE, F.; TRIDIMAS, G. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1990

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Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China.

Knight, J.; Shi, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996

We have posed an interesting and possibly original question: Why are Chinese villages that are so close together geographically so far apart economically? We have developed an answer in terms of factor immobiblities and processes of cumulative causation. Our results are not conclusive: Sharper...

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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality.

Knight, J.; Shi, L.; Renwei, Z. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each …

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The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China.

Knight, J.; Shi, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1991

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Optimal Income Support Targeting.

De Watchter, S.; Galiani, S. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper considers the practical problem of distributing a fixed budget for poverty alleviation to a population whose poverty status is not directly observable. Some information on the relationship between poverty status and a number of observable and verifiable characteristics is assumed to...

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THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA.

KNIGHT, J.; SONG, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1990

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Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China.

Knight, J.; Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per …

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