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offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India … scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …
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reality that makes the rural areas of India impermeable to the effects of globalization. To exploit the possibilities and …Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive …
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talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …
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It is difficult, even in 2005, to write the peaceful history of the French Institute of Chartered Accountants. Almost everywhere, it is written that it was founded in 1945. It would be more accurate to say that it was re-constituted in 1945. It was actually created in 1942 and its origins are...
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the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative … relationship between education spending and savings rates across OECD countries. In this paper, we present a model where a …
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This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
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not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
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the frequently obtained conclusion that investments in higher education are too low are doubtful. The tests also show the … importance of further education and training, especially on-the-job training. …
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We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...
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's future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …
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