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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …
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the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …
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about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … share of educated individuals, and differential fertility related to education. The framework explores the roles of … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …
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Two issues related to mapping a multi-sector model into a reduced-form value-added model are often neglected: the composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between the productivity indices for value added and for gross output. We illustrate their significance for growth accounting...
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This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth - both empirical and theoretical - distinguish from previous work in three distinct ways:...
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fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …
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here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model … of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in …
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attainment. We find that Akan boys exposed to the reform received on average 0.9 less years of education, a 10 percent reduction … education to substitute for land inheritance. Our findings suggest that in the presence of customary norms, land reform and the …
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This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...
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