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the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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now gone through a demographic transition, with declining birth rates and an increase in the aging population, low-income …
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children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …' understanding and practice of classroom accommodations for children with disabilities. The paper illustrates that educators, who …
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-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …
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on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …
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The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...
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and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …
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health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … taller and have 5.3 more years of schooling than their providers (usually their parents), while female offspring are 4 … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …
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The objective of this ASA was 'to develop policy recommendations for the Russian Federation based on a detailed analysis of the returns to education and identification of feasible pathways for robust growth in Russia's human capital wealth'. The second part of identifying feasible pathways was...
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