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people's physical well-being, such as health, nutrition and education, and others to the widening of choice an enhanced …
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recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by …-94 using a large national level household survey data. The data show that the returns to education increases up to the … schooling. The returns to women's education for the primary and middle levels have declined while those for secondary and …
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's education than father's. More educated women work more hours in the market labor force, broadening the tax base and thereby … expenditures toward women's education. …
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at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …
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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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Despite the fact that the quality of education for Africans in South Africa was lower than that for whites, in 1993 the … percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education were substantially higher for … Africans than for whites. These rates increased at higher levels of education for both race groups. …
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This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary … education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be …
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Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage … gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans … than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or …
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We estimate the effects of higher quality healthcare usage on health, labor supply and schooling outcomes for sick individuals in Tanzania. Using exogenous variation in the cost of formal sector healthcare to predict treatment choice, we show that using better quality care improves health...
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