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The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound
Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …
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The Democratic Transition
Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320398
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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-95
de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This document describes the construction of series on the educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries for the period 1960-95. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2000).
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Endogenous Growth, Human Capital, and Industry Wages
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
Lucas' 1988 model of the external effects of human capital formation is used as a starting point for an analysis of the impact of human capital on wages. Most empirical tests of new growth theory are based on time-series and cross-section data. This paper suggests a microeconometric approach to...
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
commerce quickly dissipates after national compulsory primary schooling is imposed at Unification, suggesting that the channel …
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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Education and Household Welfare
Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
education.We focus on fertility, child survival, schooling, and child labor. Female education is not as strongly associated with … the association between educational rank and outcomes is strong: women who obtain more schooling than their peers in …
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Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana
La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that introduced minimum quotas for the land that parents should devolve on their children. This policy differentially affected ethnic groups depending on their descent rules:...
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