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Are microloans bad for growth?
Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - 2010
externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153583
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Human capital and education : the state of the art in the economics of education
Burgess, Simon M. - 2016
This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457394
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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209861
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Motivated to succeed? : attitudes to education among native and immigrant pupils in England
Burgess, Simon M.; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel - 2018
We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in … also show that students in London have more positive attitudes to education on average, but this is entirely accounted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881599