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Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012

The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital-labor ratio in urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV...

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Does access to secondary education affect primary schooling? : evidence from India

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

, parents have lesser interest in their children's education even at the primary stage. -- primary schooling ; returns to …This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children … support for the hypothesis that better access to secondary education increases enrolment and attendance among children in the …

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How should we treat under-performing schools? : a regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England

Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon M. - 2012

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Wage–productivity differentials and Indian economic efficiency

Sahoo, Amarendra; Raa, Thijs ten - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 2, pp. 341-348

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Explaining charter school effectiveness

Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, … - 2012

school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …

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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Outcomes for young people with disabilities : increased expectations but unrealised gains in South Asia

Singal, Nidhi; Bhatti, Feyza; Janjua, Shehryar; Sood, Neeru - In: Education outcomes and poverty : a reassessment, (pp. 55-73). 2012

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Skills, lives and livelihoods : insights from Ghana, India and Pakistan

Palmer, Robert; Akabzaa, Roland; Janjua, Shehryar; … - In: Education outcomes and poverty : a reassessment, (pp. 74-93). 2012

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Choices for studying choice : assessing charter school effectiveness using two quasi-experimental methods

H. Davis, Devora; E. Raymond, Margaret - In: Economics of education review 31 (2012) 2, pp. 225-236

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Generating economic growth : an analytical survey

Thompson, Maria - In: The open economics journal 1 (2008), pp. 25-36

The theoretical richness and variety of the new growth literature can make it difficult to capture the essence of growth models. With this paper, we wish to provide one possible integrating view of the nature of the growth generating processes. Revisiting the models that constitute the core of...

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