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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 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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-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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Trade of the OECD countries has grown faster than income during the postwar period. This paper tests a number of … different hypotheses for the observed growth in the trade/income ratio. For small open economies, increases in real output and …
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, or because preferences have become more similar with rising per capita income. …
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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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for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each …
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