state in the south of India, we examine average and marginal returns to cattle. One variant of our identification strategy …

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with … information on the linguistic distance between languages, gaps in literacy test scores are estimated. Linguistically distant …

literacy as the ability to productively use written information. Significant effects are found for developed and developing … countries, leading on an aggregated macro level to a positive relationship between literacy and economic development. (2) The …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a … wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross …-sectional data there is a weak negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age. However, this relationship could …

This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market … outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that … are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific" approach identifies the most relevant literacy and numeracy variables …