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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …
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This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level … challenges and offers policy recommendations to ensure inclusivity in education for children with disabilities …
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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
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This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. Expande tu Mente is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person's own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools...
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The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital accumulation. But in many developing countries, a sizeable fraction of people are not employed, or are in jobs in which they cannot fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to...
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the relationships between child stature, mother's years of education, and indicators of early childhood development. The …
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In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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