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from five to eight years -- to estimate the causal effect of education on earnings. The policy reform brought about a … estimates of the returns to education are much larger estimates than the OLS estimates. These results also constitute the first … causal estimates of the returns to education in the Turkish context and one of the few in developing country contexts. …
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This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey—which substantially increased the grade completion rates not only during the new compulsory years but also during the high school years—on the equality of educational outcomes among various...
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I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … find the longer school year increases educational attainment and wages, but I do not find evidence that education improves … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy …
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Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that … education is one of the best ways to offer increased socioeconomic opportunities, social mobility and wages. Not only is … universal education important but more significant is the quality of the education. In an attempt to offer higher …
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years—which increased the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey. We find that increased compulsory schooling years...
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The element of education has here a very important role not only regarding the aspect of quality of the act but in …
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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Most discussion of after-school programs in shanty towns has focused on estimating their average effects. The results of these programs are inconclusive and the explanation may be that the effects are heterogeneous. In this paper, we study the influence of how heterogeneity in the type of...
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said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … (education) in India with the emphasis on State wise analysis. The elasticity concept has used to study the relationship between …
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This paper uses recent household survey data for Cameroon to measure the cost for households of the education services …
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