, particularly in the domain of total years of education. However, there were no significant long-term benefits for boys. These …

scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Education has a significant reducing effect …

mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …