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. Descriptive statistics show a continuous spread of education that has accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century. We …
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determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …
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This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
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The article aims at assessing the effectiveness of a role-play in addressing two concerns: clarifying the concept of sustainable development and teaching sustainable development issues. The effectiveness is gauged by surveying students to reveal how the game matches a set of "significant...
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The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … by alternative explanations. One of them is that participation aims not to increase education quality but rather to …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...
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This paper examines the existence of convergence and the importance of education on carbon dioxide growth per capita … education is not a factor in carbon dioxide emissions growth. Contrary to commonly held beliefs based on intuition, we provide … evidence that, in developing countries, there is no convergence, and that education is not a factor in carbon dioxide growth …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755510