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With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...
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Education is one of the key resources in the fight against poverty. While substantial progress has been made in terms of school enrollment, evidence suggests that educational quality is still alarmingly low in many developing countries. Various explanations have been suggested, but one very...
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This study provides novel evidence on the relative effectiveness of computer-assisted learning (CAL) software and traditional teaching. Based on a randomized controlled trial in Salvadoran primary schools, we evaluate three interventions that aim to improve learning outcomes in mathematics: (i)...
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We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the … extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s. Simple regressions of disability pension receipt on … schooling suggest a very strong negative relationship between education and disability pension use, particularly in the lower …
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This paper looks at individual risk behavior and disability in Vietnam, where many households live with a disabled … family member. Due to the Vietnam war, disability is a common phenomenon and shapes individuals' daily life and decision …
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The microsimulation model MOSART is used to analyse the long run development in disability and old-age pensions covered …
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We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing … substantially increases the disability entry rate of workers in affected plants. Workers originally employed in plants that closed … between 1993 and 1998 were 27.9 percent more likely to utilize disability pensions in 1999 than comparable workers in non …
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We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation among older workers in … Norway. Specifically, we investigate how a worker's propensity to draw disability benefits is affected by a plausibly … exogenous shock to the disability entry rate of similarly-aged workers in his or her neighborhood. The problem of omitted …
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The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability …-time employed married women going into disability or rehabilitation are not doing so entirely voluntarily. Using a set of … has also played a significant role in increasing the number on disability and rehabilitation, while changes in disability …
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