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thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party …
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education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using …-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …
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school certificates and more than 20 per cent prematurely stopped their education process at junior high school level …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … education attainment most of the cohort experienced missed or interrupted schooling. We show, however, that given the education …
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the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
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In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...
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