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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa.

Schults, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult …

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Why Governments Should Invest More to Educate Girls

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

where women are much less educated. The health and schooling of children are more closely related to their mother …

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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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Accounting for Public Expenditures on Education: An International Panel Study.

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

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Meghir, Costas; Momaerts, Corina; Carneiro, Pedro; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357704

Economic Growth and Human Development

Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …

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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

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

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

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