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Skills and Returns to Education in the Russian Federation

World Bank Group - 2020

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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Maximizing Returns on Human Capital Investment in Mongolia : Policy Note for Mongolia

World Bank Group - 2020

, envisioning that children and youth will be educated at world-class standards, adopt active lifestyle, benefit from life …

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CPIA Africa, August 2020 : Safeguarding Human Capital during and beyond COVID-19

World Bank Group - 2020

The 2020 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period from January to December 2019. The addition of Somalia brought the number of the region's International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries to 39. The overall CPIA score for the region's 39...

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Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital

World Bank Group - 2019

to be responsive to the demands that will be faced by children growing up today into a networked, connected world of ever …-increasing digitization and online and offline collaboration. The book will also be helpful to teachers and parents and other adults who are … interested in understanding more about the subject of preparing children for the 21st century from both theoretical and practical …

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Education and Italian regional development

Di Liberto, Adriana; Symons, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...

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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data...

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The impact of low income on child health: evidence from a birth cohort study

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or because parental wealth …There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children … is associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health is associated with both income and children¿s health …

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