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This paper studies the effects of child disability on mothers’ participation in the labor force using Australian data. We formulate a bivariate Probit model in which mothers’ employment and welfare recipient status are treated as the dependent variables and child disability is responsible...
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-Saharan African countries (SSAs), particularly Ghana. The weakness in the link between education and the needed skill by the industry … new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … employs Cox's Proportional Hazard Model to examine the effect of education, language, computer and numeracy skill on …
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This study investigates the effects of remittances on education and health outcomes using a 5-year interval data on 46 … improve education and health in SSA. It was also established that improving education impacts positively on health and the …
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countries, debt swaps for development, including debt-for-education swaps, became popular between the 1980s and 2000s. Their … with a focus on debt-for-education swaps, explaining how they became popular, examining why they have lost momentum, and … exploring whether debt-for-education swaps are a feasible option for funding social development programs. Despite recent …
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people was not significantly different from other cohorts. Education and household size positively affect the demand for debt …
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public spending on human capital and their correlates in Africa. The study found public spending on health and education in …
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. Individual-level variables included in the model are education, socioeconomic status, and spending behaviour. It is found that … poverty. A particularly significant ratio of poor is found for people who attained deeni madrassa/religious education or no … education at all. Poverty existence is significantly associated with spending behavior and socioeconomic status. The persons …
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homogenous group- rather gender, age, education and income levels of the households, which are showcased in this study, to also …
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investors, considering their personality traits, level of risk tolerance and level of education. Results from this study are in …-tolerant than their female counterparts. Furthermore, investors' level of education significantly influenced their level of …
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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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