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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether …
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Human Capital, Labour Productivity and Employment
Bhat, Savita; Siddharthan, N S - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in labour productivity … determinants of productivity. Furthermore, higher enrolments in high schools not only contribute to higher labour productivity but … also to higher growth in productivity. In addition, states that have higher high school enrolment rates have been enjoying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690331
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Emerging Asia's Middle Class-A Force to be Reckoned With
Dyck, Steffen; Hansakul, Syetarn; Saxena, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that the Asian consumer will replace the US as “world consumer of last resortâ€,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543122
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The Chinese Export Bundles: Patterns, Puzzles and Possible Explanations
Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-Jin - eSocialSciences - 2008
Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487793
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Kerala Fights Clock in ASEAN Free-Trade Deal
Devraj, Ranjit - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543132
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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality
Das, Mausumi; Chakraborty, Shankha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. Health human capital is introduced into a two-period overlapping generations model....
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
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Spatial Convergence and Growth in Indian Agriculture: 1967-2010
Chaterjee, Tirtha - eSocialSciences - 2014
Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. It finds strong evidence in favour of beta convergence but not in favour of sigma convergence....
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The Human Capital Report
WEF, World Economic Forum - eSocialSciences - 2013
The Human Capital Index explores the contributors and inhibitors to the development and deployment of a healthy, educated and productive labour force, and has generated the information contained in this Report. The Index provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945383
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Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
Banerjee, Abhijit; Meng, Xin; Porzio, Tommaso; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2014
This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equi- librium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No. 415].
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