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Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Child Marriage

World Bank - 2023

and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … school children. In 2022, the Empowering Women by Balancing the Law (EWBL) initiative of the Legal Vice Presidency of the …

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From early child development to human development : investing in our children's future

Young, Mary E. (contributor) - 2002

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel - 2009

"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility …

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World atlas of the child

1979

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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008

? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they …

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The return to firm investment in human capital

Carneiro, Pedro - 2006

"In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...

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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth

Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005

"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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Knowledge and development : a cross-section approach

Chen, Derek Hung Chiat - 2004

"Chen and Dahlman assess the effects of knowledge on economic growth. By using an array of indicators, each of which represents an aspect of knowledge, as independent variables in cross-section regressions that span 92 countries for the period 1960 to 2000, they show that knowledge is a...

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Technological change, investment in human capital, and economic growth

Kim, Yong-jin (contributor); Lee, Jong-Wha (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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International data on educational attainment : updates and implications

Barro, Robert J. (contributor); Lee, Jong-Wha (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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