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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel - 2008

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

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Liberation Technology : Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa

Manacorda, Marco - 2016

Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...

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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers

Bau, Natalie - 2017

This paper uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to present among the first estimates in a low-income country of (a) teacher effectiveness; (b) teacher value added (TVA) and its correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher...

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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation

Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019

This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated with country size (by population) and positively associated with the income level. The findings show that a country's openness to trade is positively associated with public...

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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence

Costa-Font, Joan - 2015

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the hypothesis of an...

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Productivity and Health : Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity

Akogun, Oladele - 2017

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...

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Labor supply responses to health shocks : evidence from high-frequency labor market data from urban Ghana

Heath, Rachel; Mansuri, Ghazala; Rijkers, Bob - 2019

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is...

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020

intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …

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Returns to education in Azerbaijan : some new estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns … controlling for selection. In addition, the paper estimates the returns for higher education; for this level, the rate of return …

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