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Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education

Contreras, Dante - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

For over twenty years, a voucher system has been used in Chile to promote competition in the educational system between public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but the apparent impact is relatively small....

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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...

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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Valdivia, Martin; Karlan, Dean - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

Can one teach entrepreneurship, or is it a fixed personal characteristic? Most academic and policy discussion on microentrepreneurs in developing countries focuses on their access to credit, and assumes their human capital to be fixed. However, a growing number of microfinance organizations are...

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Education Returns Across Quantiles of the Wage Function: Alternative Explanation for Returns to Education by Race in South Africa.

Schultz, T.P.; Mwabu, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995

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Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

Economists have argued that increasing female schooling positively influences the labor supply of married women by inducing a faster rise in market productivity relative to non-market productivity. I use the Nigerian Labor Force Survey to investigate how own and husband's schooling affect...

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School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

affected enrollment. Poor children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the …

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Population and the Economy in Germany, 1800-1990.

Guinnane, T. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

Germany's turbulent history in the past two centuries has left its mark on her population. The industrialization of the nineteenth century promoted rapid population growth, and the spatial concentration of that industrialization provoked enormous internal migration. Germany's relatively late...

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Population and the Economy in Germany, 1800-1990

Guinnane, Timothy W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

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Family Structure, Fertility and Child Quality in Colombia.

Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

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FERTILITY IN RURAL SUDAN: THE EFFECT OF LANDHOLDING AND CHILD MORTALITY.

MAGLAD, N.E. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1990

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