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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Zhang, Junsen; Rosenzweig, Mark - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

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Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark; Hassan, Nazmul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … incorporates gender differences in the level and responsiveness of brawn to nutrition in a Roy-economy setting in which activities …

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The Gender and Generational Consquences of the Demographic Transition and Population Policy: An Assessment of the Micro and Macro Linkages

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

The demographic transition changes the age composition of a population, affecting resource allocations at the household and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the entire population, they might suggest how the demographic...

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Why Governments Should Invest More to Educate Girls

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

Women and men often receive the same percentage increase in their wage rates with advances in schooling. Because these returns decline with more schooling, the marginal returns for women will tend to exceed those for men, especially in countries where women are much less educated. The health and...

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Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education

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

results also show that family school choice is gender biased, females are sent more often to voucher schools while males are …

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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Fairlie, Robert W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …

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Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey

Tansel, A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of enrollements have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern...

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Public_Private Employment Choice, Wage Differential and Gender in Turkey.

Tansel, A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage...

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Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …

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Gender, Credit Constraints, and Education in Rural Thailand

Naranong, Viroj - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

The study examines the effects of gender and credit constraints on rural students' advancement to secondary education … results of probit estimation, consistently confirms that gender differences affect investment in boys' and girls' secondary … education differently. However, there are also some indications that the gender effect has been diminishing over time. …

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