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Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Child Marriage
World Bank - 2023
and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … school children. In 2022, the Empowering Women by Balancing the Law (EWBL) initiative of the Legal Vice Presidency of the …
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Month of birth and children's health in India
Lokshin, Michael - 2009
the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …
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Tajikistan - Improving Statistics for Children's Births and Deaths
World Bank - 2012
The Government of Tajikistan has identified improving maternal and child health (MCH) as key priorities in its new Health Sector Strategy for 2010-2020. The Government recognizes that improving MCH outcomes is critical to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for maternal and child...
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Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth
Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, Chris - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Separate identification of the price and quantity of human capital has important implications for understanding key issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated and they exhibit a strong secular trend. Three...
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The Economic Return on New Immigrants' Human Capital: the Impact of Occupational Matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using a data set that provides information on source country employment, we examine the effect of source and host country occupational matching on earnings and the economic rate of return to the foreign human capital of immigrants in Canada. Examining occupational distributions we find that...
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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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Selecting Economic Immigrants: An Actuarial Approach
McHale, John; Rogers, Keith - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems have been influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally been incorporated in an ad hoc way. This paper explores a formal...
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The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions
Caponi, Vincenzo; Kayahan, Cevat Burc; Plesca, Miana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
The literature has not yet resolved whether the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on training decisions is positive or negative. On the one hand, the opportunity cost to train is lower during downturns, and thus training should be counter-cyclical. On the other hand, a positive shock may be...
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The Returns to Flexible Postsecondary Education: The Effect of Delaying School
Ferrer, Ana M.; Menendez, Alicia - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We investigate the returns to postsecondary education relaxing the standard assumption that it proceeds in a continuous manner. Using a unique survey that collects information on a representative cohort of graduates, we are able to estimate the effects of delaying school among successful...
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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980 - 2006
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper examines the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2006. Most of the analysis is based on Census data, and on weekly wage and salary earnings of full-time workers. Our main finding is that the returns to education increased substantially for Canadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977982