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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
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A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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following sections: Section I sets out the meaning and implications of the right to education. Section II examines the extent to … which the realities of our elementary education system and the normative content of government policy in this regard match … the requirements of the right to education. Section III takes a comprehensive look at the provisions of the Bill and …
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One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …
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Concerned with the question of gender equity in access to and retention in science education and careers, this study …
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in New York at the International Conference to Review Science, Mathematics and Technology Education in Goa in 2004 just …
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-1920 consistently opposed the establishment of girls’ schools, the imparting of education to non-Brahmins, and implementing compulsory … education. They were also instrumental in defeating the proposals to implement compulsory education in nine out of eleven … education advocated by reformers, as their national education consisted of teaching the Dharmashastras and some technical skills …
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Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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